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Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:26:28 GMT

hello to everybody,
i am searching for Alexander Calder's Eagle and Bourgois Spider as objects .gsm or 3ds. Can somebody help me out. Thanks in advance

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:27:38 GMT

ALEXANDERS EAGLE

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

vistasp — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:49:32 GMT

Angelos, I'd be extremely surprised if you found a gsm model of the objects you're looking for. 3DS is possible but I think your best bet is to look for a sketchup model in the 3Dwarehouse and modify it to look something like what you want.

Then, provided you're running on Windows, you can bring the sketchup model into AC using this plugin.

You should add some details about your version of ArchiCAD, operating system and hardware in your signature so that you can be helped better on this forum.

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:14:04 GMT

thanks vistasp for the help,
i looked at warehouse and i did not find these objects. maybe something with more luck...

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:23:08 GMT

Another way if you have sketch up pro or a trial version of pro, you can export the model as a dwg., make sure you have surfaces set to export.

Then you can open the dwg as a "object" and bring it into ArchiCAD. This is a bit dirty in terms of editing the materials of separate parts.
But if you need an object quick this is a good way

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:26:54 GMT

keith wrote:
Another way if you have sketch up pro or a trial version of pro, you can export the model as a dwg., make sure you have surfaces set to export.

Then you can open the dwg as a "object" and bring it into ArchiCAD. This is a bit dirty in terms of editing the materials of separate parts.
But if you need an object quick this is a good way

3DS is a much better than DWG for this sort of thing.

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:37:38 GMT

Matthew,

[3DS is a much better than DWG for this sort of thing.]

will this give you better surface material control?
Thanks

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:09:02 GMT

keith wrote:
Matthew,

[3DS is a much better than DWG for this sort of thing.]

will this give you better surface material control?
Thanks

Much better. Maybe even texture maps, but I haven't tried this yet.

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:16:41 GMT

Matthew,
I will try this next time.
I needed a quick basketball ceiling mount backboard and frame last year in AC12. Saved it in pieces from sketch up to control materials and put back together as a single part in AC. It was still faster than building the frame.

Thanks

Re: Alexander Calder's Eagle- Bourgois Spider

Pertti Paasky — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:52:16 GMT

You can fin spider in 3D warehouse. Frank Gehry´s Bilbao Guggenheim museum model has one.