Capturing a Venue

Capture produces a DWG of the surfaces that enclose a venue, for import into acoustic simulation software.

The venue is identified by a scope box and an origin. The application finds the walls, floors, ceilings and other surfaces that enclose it and writes them to a DWG.

The exported surfaces are the model's own geometry. Nothing is redrawn or approximated — a wall face is exported as that wall's face. The application determines which faces bound the room.

The steps

Work through these in order.

• 1. Prepare the model — what to check before starting.
• 2. Place the scope box — name the venue and bound it.
• 3. Place the origin — set position and orientation.
• 4. Capture the venue — run the capture.
• 5. Check the result — confirm the correct room was captured.
• 6. Surface layers — organise surfaces for material assignment.
• 7. The DWG export — what is produced, and how to import it.

See Defining a venue for the elements a venue consists of, or the walkthrough for the same workflow as a worked example.

A first capture commonly identifies conditions in the model that need correcting, such as a wall that does not meet a floor or a link that was not loaded. Capture may be re-run as often as required; results are replaced rather than added to.