topic Re: 3-Compartment Sink in Libraries & objects

3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:26:21 GMT

I've looked and I'm pretty sure I looked everywhere, but I can't find a basic three-compartment, stainless-steel sink used by restaurants and industry the world over. Is it missing or do I keep over looking it?

I've been using a hacked version for the last few years but it's crappy and would be so much better if it were a real part.

Or does anyone know of a 3rd party that might have one? A good one and not an incomplete mess?

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:42:40 GMT

Do you have a picture of what you want? Maybe you cab make it yourself ?
Just upload a picture and maybe I cab give you some help in making one yourself.

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:47:30 GMT

Seem like I've caught a cold : cab.. (=can)

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:50:28 GMT

Here are some examples.

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:51:13 GMT

Straight with sideboards.

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:51:48 GMT

Without sideboards.

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Dennis Lee — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:53:56 GMT

What about use something like this? I think there's a lot of threads about bringing them to archicad.

link

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:20:19 GMT

Thanks for pointing me in that direction. The model is really nice looking but I was hoping from something parametric with options instead of trying to hack one into place.

I'm looking at what I'll need to use this however. It looks better in 3D than what I have now.

-switchable from corner to straight
-adjust the # of sinks from 1-whatever (making this a more universal utility sink)
-adjust x,y,z of sink dimensions
-with or without side boards (independently controlled)
-adjust x,y of sideboards
-adjust leg height
-adjust drainage
-adjust splash board height
-adjust faucet type
-adjust materials
-able to add cover fills
-able to change pen type and line type

These are some of the parameters I was hoping to find in an object. Would this be difficult to script the one from Google's warehouse to function like this?

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:24:43 GMT

Something like this you could make by putting walls and slabs togeter.
You could also drag it into the GDL-editor and put some parameters like material on it, and replace the chosen material in the code by the parameter.
It's also possible to make the sizes dynamic from the code in the GDL-editor.
You just have to add some more parameters and use them from the code.
There are information available at Graphisofts site about how to make simple objects. The manual I think about show you by going through samples step-by-step.

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:39:40 GMT

I made a kitchen some time ago. I had to buy a commercial kitchen collection from objects on line. This one:
http://www.objectsonline.com/product_info.php?products_id=1546

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:31 GMT

Are you an interior designer or something? With that much flexibility it would tak some time to plan how to make it, and development experience is needed I think. Aren't there anywhere you could buy it?

Re: 3-Compartment Sink

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:12:24 GMT

I'm not an interior designer but I do a lot of restaurants and institutions.

I was looking around the link that jocontreras provided (thanks, btw, not quite what I was looking for but as it happens there is an object in that set I need) and there is another object in there that looks to be as close to what I was hoping for as possible.

http://www.objectsonline.com/product_info.php?products_id=1353

It's a parametric steel sink that does most of what I was hoping for. @$17 I'm willing to give it a try.

All the work into designing a proper part and the fact that I don't know GDL scripting is why I started to ask if anyone had one or knew of one that was available. I can imagine this would be quite a bit of work and I'm really happy the linked object looks so promising.

Thanks for offering advice.