topic Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs in Libraries & objects

AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Eduardo Bell — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:08:25 GMT

Hi, I'm wondering:
How does one show in 3D, a typical barrel shaped 2 piece clay tile, on a pitched roof in AC15?

Has the roof surfacer add-on have a Roman style tile, as the closest thing available? Is it possible get the under tile to be barrel, and not flat?

We have spanish roof tiled models, and have been using a good gdl object that is not compatible with AC15, either as a stand alone object, or a 3rd party object loaded to the surfacer add-on.

Any thoughts or recommendations are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Ed

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:30:25 GMT

Is the Italian Tile what you are looking for? See attached accessory parameters. It does look like the upwards facing tile is flat in the image - but I did not dig through the parameters to see if it can be another barrel.

Karl

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:09:13 GMT

Here are the roof tiles that you need (GUI is in spanish):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1g1rp8nn7233k7x

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:56:04 GMT

There are a couple of tile Accessory objects on Olivier Dentan's site which may be useful to you (I'm not entirely sure what you are after!) -

http://archilib.od.pagesperso-orange.fr/

Both have PDF instructions, but they are in French. I wonder if Olivier could translate them into English for us? Google does a poor job on technical documents!

It would also be quite useful if anyone knew of a 'double roman' style of roof tile accessory like the attached image, as this is the type that is more commonly used in the UK.

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Eduardo Bell — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:57:37 GMT

Karl: yes, that's the tile surfacer, we don't use the Roman Style in California since the 2-piece 'Mission' or Spanish tile is preferred around here.

Andro, thanks for the link, these look pretty good, however they only work as objects in AC15 and not as an integral surface to the new linked roof modes. Also I could not figure out how to make a hip roof, the triangular objects all have a 90 degree angles...are we supposed to mirror them? These are somewhat labor intensive roof parts but I like how they look, they are v11 parts and I need assurances they will still be supported by AC in years to come.

Peter, these are also good, and I've used them in the past, however these are the ones that don't translate into AC15. Actually they load and open but later give error messages when trying to use the parametric functions.
Sorry, haven't seen tiles like the ones you need.

Thank you guys, still looking. I've been wishing that GS add the style I need forever and it is also common in other parts of the US, Europe and the rest of the Americas. We've had the same old surface options since the surfacer was released eons ago..some things don't seem get enough attention, this seems pretty basic to me.

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:39:48 GMT

Eduardo,
Sorry, that spanish tiles are problematic. Here is another one from an Italian architect Bruno Somaschini.....it is a Roof Accessories which will add:
1. Roof Tiles....Tegole (12 different types)
2. Roof Rafters....Travetti (with ON/OFF switch)
to your roof.
The GUI is in Italian.

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:45:30 GMT

Peter wrote:

It would also be quite useful if anyone knew of a 'double roman' style of roof tile accessory like the attached image, as this is the type that is more commonly used in the UK.

Peter,
This is usefull for you also (under the tab Tegole select "Doppia Romana")

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:52:42 GMT

Download this accessorie from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bknuq7ilbl2ssns

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Eduardo Bell — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:15:57 GMT

Andro, thanks again for your continued support! Too bad these tiles also become buggy when used in AC15, I can get them to load into the surfacer but the object dialog box acts funny and eventually AC15 freezes.

I was told Cigraph had some roof tiles that might work, but could not confirm this by looking at the product marketing, and it seems like these now have to be purchased as part of a suite of add-on tools that costs 750 euros and need a paid yearly upgrade..this is out of the question for me.

Ed

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:33:31 GMT

Any news on this? I have used it in the past on older versions of ArchiCAD, but can't find anything that works on 15. Last used it in 14, but as others have said it was full of bugs.

Re: AC15_Clay Tile Roofs

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:39:50 GMT

I had to model a very simple bungalow last month, where the old roof add on would have helped put some meat on the bones of my very basic looking model. In the end I used the ridge tile object as a fix, as the roof was very simple, but it's not an ideal solution at all.