topic Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11 in Libraries & objects

Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Anonymous — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:35:30 GMT

Hello,
I'm very new to Archicad - I'm usuing Archicad 11 and would like to use a spider clamp for a curtain wall. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone know wher I could find the object?
Thank you!
Sue

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

rocorona — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:35:08 GMT

I did this one, time ago. It is for ArchiCAD from version 10.
Parameters are in Italian, but the graphic user interface can help a lot.
It creates glasses and spiders, but you can choose the number of panels (from 1x1 to 14xi14) and enable/disable every single glass and every single spider.
So, if you only need one spider, set it to 1x1 glass, disable the glass panel and 3 of the four corner spiders.

User interface has four pages. On the first one you set all the general parameters (dimensions, resolution, materials, pens)
On the second one you choose the number of glass panels and which ones are on and off. This is done by a graphic array with checkboxes. Each checkbox representing one glass, and a red symbol representing an active (ON) spider.
Similarly, on the third page you choose which spiders are on or off. Here too you have an array of chechboxes to activate/deactivate the corresponding spiders. Between checkboxes there are blue squares, representing the active (ON) glasses.

On the last page you can activate (and set parameters for) gasket between glasses, and connecting rods.

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Anonymous — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:04:55 GMT

Thank you very much. I'll see how I go!
Sue

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Anonymous — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:41:54 GMT

Hi Rocorona, the spider clamps are beautiful! Thank you. Sue

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

rocorona — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:05:59 GMT

You are welcome.

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Thomas Holm — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:53:53 GMT

Amazing!

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:09:52 GMT

Very Nice

Re: Spider Clamp in Archicad 11

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:58:51 GMT

Ciao Roberto,

this is an amazing library part. Great job and many thanks for sharing it.
One option though I could not find which makes it not usable for my situation: I couldn't remove the little arms from the spider and have just 1 or 2 arms. Two arms option could have them at 90 or 180 degrees from each other.
Am I right?
Do you or anyone knows whether there is anything that would have that feature?