Glossary¶
Short explanations of the technical terms you'll come across in the configurator and in this handbook. Sorted alphabetically.
Terms¶
| Term | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Base (plinth) | The lowest section of a wall where it meets the base plate or floor slab. |
| Bomb Blast | A shuttlecock-shaped cutter that, as an extra, carves a jagged hole into the building. |
| Connector (tongue/groove) | A joining piece that holds separately printed parts together via a tongue-and-groove or dovetail shape (see Connectors). |
| Dormer | A structure with a window on a sloped roof face — in PrintHaus as a shed, gable or hip dormer (see Openings). |
| Eaves | The lower, horizontal roof edge; also the pivot around which the roof pitch tilts. |
| Gable | The vertical, usually triangular wall surface beneath a sloped roof on the narrow side. |
| Hip | The sloping outer edge where two roof faces of a hip roof meet on the outside. |
| Hipped end | An extra sloped roof face on the narrow side instead of a vertical gable. |
| Individual-part scale | The scale range up to 1:99 in which the house is broken into individual printed parts with connectors — the counterpart to the monolith. |
| Knee wall | A low wall section between the ceiling of the top floor and the eaves. |
| Lintel | The upper, horizontal edge of a wall opening. |
| Monolith | From 1:100 on: each floor and the roof are exported as one solid body, windows and doors only as cut-outs (see Scale). |
| Relief | The raised surface structure of a texture; created only in the print export, "None" = smooth. |
| Reveal | The inner side faces of a wall opening (window, door). |
| Ridge | The topmost, horizontal edge of a sloped roof where two roof faces meet. |
| Sill (parapet) | On a window, the height from the finished floor up to the bottom of the window; on a balcony or terrace, the surrounding railing. |
| Valley | The recessed edge where two roof faces meet at an internal corner. |
| Verge | The sloping roof edge at the gable, running across the eaves. |