Create Indoor Database with LEGO
The Lego tool provides a couple of easy to use functions for indoor database creation. The main idea is the generation of basic wall combinations (the so-called “templates”) describing typical database elements such as rectangular rooms, staircases and roofs The user-friendly graphical interface offers dialog based entry of fundamental template parameters (dimensions), post-creation editing possibilities (moving, scaling, rotating), the definition of any combination of database walls as a template, recombination possibilities for known templates and a program toolbar for fast selection of the tool to be used.
The LEGO toolbar can be found by default at the top side of the WallMan window.
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Rectangular room |  |
Roof |
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L-shaped room |  |
Stairs |
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T-shaped room |  |
Cylinder |
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U-shaped room |  |
Sphere |
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S-shaped room | |
Staircase |
To create a LEGO element, select a type from the LEGO toolbar and edit the values in the appearing dialog.
Figure 1. The Settings for room type L-Room dialog.
After closing the dialog with OK, WallMan shows the new element in the active 2D view. Double-clicking on the element changes between move and rotate mode. The element can be moved and rotated by clicking on it and moving the mouse.