Measurement confusion!

Uhh...Help! I'm in the Cordova sandbox experimenting with prims for the purpose of getting a picture of how big or small certain prefab houses would look like on a 512sq m plot. (whew, I think I burned 100 calories trying to put that sentence together *lol*)

1. The first house has 200 sq m floor space - So what numbers should I put into Size (X,Y,Z) ?

2. The second house is - Length: 10 meters x Width: 10 x Height: 15 meters . Should I use those exact #s?

Thankios

Floor space is X & Y. Globally, the X axis runs East & West, and the Y axis runs North & South. Z is up & down, so it is irrelevant for a floor plan.

I'm not sure I understand your question about what numbers you should use. There are thousands of ways to configure 200 square meters. It could be 20x10, or 40x5, or 50x4, or 100x2, or 200x1, etc. If you want it to be a perfect square, then it would be 14.142x14.142. Beyond that type of grade school math, I'm not sure what else you might be asking. Please clarify if that wasn't the answer you wre looking for.


Again, I don't know what you're asking here. These are prefab houses right, meaning they're already built? In that case, wouldn't you just use whatever measurements the creator left them at?

If these are houses you're building, you can obviously use whatever numbers you want. If your aim is to make sure they fit on a 512 square meter plot, then just make sure the floor plan is smaller than that. Keep in mind though that plots are not always square. 512 could mean 4x128, or 8x64, or 16x32, or it could even be an L shape with any combination of measurements.

Please provide more detailed questions, & I'll be happy to try and give you a more definitive answer. For now that's the best I can do.

Thanks Chosen.

These are houses I haven't bought yet. I want to try and create prims with the exact same measurements of each house on a 512 sq m land, so that I can see whether the houses will fit or not. Maybe that will clear up the confusion...



I tried putting those #s into the X & Y, like you said, but each box automatically resets itself to 10.000. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

The maximum size of a prim is 10m by 10m
So to get 14.142 x 14.142 you need 4 prims like :

1 of 10x10
1 of 4.142 x 10
1 of 10 x 4.142
1 of 4.142 x 4.142

to make that kind of footprint

Ah, that makes sense.


As Vortex said, the maximum size for a single prim is 10x10, so you'llhave to use multiple pieces. I'd recommend a simpler method than the one Vortex outlined though. It's a good idea to keep components equally sized whenever possible, so just make 4 pieces, each measuring half the total length on X & Y (7.071). This way, each piece will be exactly 1/4 the total area. Link them together, and you have a 14.124x14.124 meter square.

To quickly align the pieces so they're flush with eachother, use the numbers. When you're working with pieces that are all the same size, placement is fast and easy because the distance between their centers will always be equal to the size of the pieces. So, wherever you put the first piece, just place the second one exactly 7.071 meters away on either the X or Y axis. Do the same for the third, but on the opposite axis. The fourth piece should go next to third in the same way that the second went next to the first. Select them all, press ctrl L, and you're done.