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Designer furniture

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:12:29 GMT

Hello.

Does anybody have eames plywood lounge chair, bertoia side chair and george nelson bench I could download for a project I am doing?

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:15:36 GMT

I doubt you'll find anything that specific, but can you upload images so we can see what you're after?

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:32:33 GMT

nelson bench

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:35:12 GMT

bertoia chair

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:37:56 GMT

eames chair

Re: Designer furniture

David Maudlin — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:27 GMT

neutra.des wrote:
nelson bench

This bench could be made with 3 parts in ArchiCAD, then grouped or saved as an object:

1. Make the seat from a slab with holes. One hole can be copied or multiplied.
2. The vertical part of the legs from columns that are sloped.
3. The horizontal part of the legs from slabs or beams.

HTH

David

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:38:11 GMT

The Eames plywood chair (and lots of other cool stuff) is available in Sketchup format at the warehouse.

sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/

You will have to open it in Sketchup Pro and save as 3DS or DWG (OBJ and VRML might work also). The add-on for 3DS import is available as a goodie (go to the ArchiCAD help menu and it will take you to the web site to download).

I don't know how good the translation will be. I've brought in 3DS to ArchiCAD with great success but don't know how well Sketchup puts out.

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:46:07 GMT

Ahem, Matthew, there is the

<<google earth plugin>>

(Or is not available to Macs?).
It opens up a whole new world for AC in terms of dumb* objects to insert in models to dress them up, and works well too! Only issue I've noticed is that the polygon count may kill you (one of the many reasons we use Artlantis).
A while ago we did work at a marina - boats that would have previously cost us a fortune are now free!!!! And there is more choice. And if you cannot be bothered modelling with GDL in AC - model in Sketchup and import.....

*=non-parametric

Re: Designer furniture

owen — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:39:45 GMT

rwallis wrote:
Ahem, Matthew, there is the

<<google earth plugin>>

(Or is not available to Macs?)...

nope

GS Aust had a 'technical issue' when it came to demonstrating that feature to our office during the AC11 launch

AFAIK the lack of a Mac plugin for AC is a Google issue, not Graphisoft.

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:39:52 GMT

Thanks for your help everyone.

Matthew, I have got as far as downloading sketchup and saved the eames chair as a 3DS. I just don't know how to open it in archicad 10 any ideas?

Re: Designer furniture

Anonymous — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:11:49 GMT

neutra.des wrote:
Thanks for your help everyone.

Matthew, I have got as far as downloading sketchup and saved the eames chair as a 3DS. I just don't know how to open it in archicad 10 any ideas?

As I said:

The add-on for 3DS import is available as a goodie (go to the ArchiCAD help menu and it will take you to the web site to download).