So for the office I decided it was going to be easiest to just take one wall at a time and block in the stationary items for that wall. As with a lot of things I do, this sounds easier than it is. A little warning, it requires a bit of math.
I started out by just modeling a basic shape and the size of the items I needed. So I started with the wall that has the door to the hallway on it. I needed an object for the lightswitch plate, the outlet, the door and the door frame since it sticks out from the wall and takes up space around the door so it limits the usable wall space. Also, I had to add something for the base board. It took sticks out from the wall. Not that that should matter a lot, but it is .25 inches so it counts.
The room is laid out around the center point of the grid that I’m using for reference. What this means is that if my wall is 142 inches long and I want something at one end of the wall, the measure I use is half that. Hopefully this picture helps explain that.
What made this a big deal was that when I wanted to place something correctly I had to think about how to get the coordinates. So if the door is 32 inches wide and I need it to sit so that the edge closest to the wall behind it is 4.25 inches from the wall I had to calculate how far from the center of the room that actually is. So that wall is 142 inches long, I divide that in half and get 71. Then I subtract the 4.25 and get 66.75 so that takes care of the distance from that wall. Now I need to subtract half of the width of the door. The door is 32 inches, divide by 2 and that gives me 16 which I subtract from 66.75. And so the center point of my door needs to sit 50.75 inches along the one axis, from the center point of the room along that same axis.
So that is a lot of numbers explaining basically what it took to get the blocked in parts of the wall in the correct places. It was a lot of fun, even if it sounds really complicated. It was sort of like a puzzle.
But I got all the pieces in for this wall. I have not applied any materials to the different objects yet. But at least they are different enough that you can see what is where.
I want to be able to show the door open so in addition to blocking in the door with a basic box, I needed to cut out the opening for the door. Since I made the wall of a basic box I didn’t give it a lot of extra segments to the different sides so I needed to add some edge loops to create polygons where the door goes so that I could then remove them and make a big hole.
In this image of the room so far I chose to hide the door so you can see that there is now the whole in the wall for the door.
So the room is progressing. It’s time to start the next wall. I’m not sure yet which one that will be. For certain the next one will be a bit more difficult to get to the stationary items to measure for their placement.