topic Re: Auditorium Seating in Libraries & objects

Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:26:29 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm a student and new at archicad. I'm designing a small theater for a project. I am almost done, but I need to find an auditorium or theater like seating to place in the seating area. I have been searching through the forum messages for the past two weeks with no luck. Can someone please help me.

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:56:25 GMT

Badandy

In Archicad10 Basic Library > Furnishing > Chairs is Audience seating 10 (I found it using the "Find library parts" option in object settings, keyword "seat"). Does this do what you want?

If you had your AC version in your signature, it would help people know which libraries are applicable.

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:44:38 GMT

Thank you very much.My bad....I never thought of putting up my version. I have ArchiCad 9 student version. Which doesn't use a couple of the add ons I've tried like ArchiTerra. So will I be able to get that object without having ArchiCad 10?

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:50:37 GMT

I have ArchiCad 9 student version.

Since you are a student, you can just download AC 10 from this website for free!

I think you won't be able to open your AC 9 project in the AC 10 software, so you will have to remodel the design. However, getting into the newest version of the software is very beneficial and opens yourself up to new options and possiblitlies.

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:46:42 GMT

O.k. Unfortunately, my deadline for this project is right around the corner. I spent about a month designing it and would not be able to re-design it in ArchiCad 10. I am really desperate right now, can anyone send me an object that would look like an audience seat??

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:19:04 GMT

Can anyone help me out here??

Re: Auditorium Seating

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:41:15 GMT

badandy_svg wrote:
O.k. Unfortunately, my deadline for this project is right around the corner. I spent about a month designing it and would not be able to re-design it in ArchiCad 10. I am really desperate right now, can anyone send me an object that would look like an audience seat??

Well, you wouldn't have to re-design it, just migrate the file (of course, I can see not wanting to attempt this at the zero hour). My best advice (short of someone coming up with an object for your use) would be to take one of the standard chairs from the AC library and manipulate the parameters to approximate those of an audience seat -- sometimes you don't need to be "exact" to get the idea across...

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:54:35 GMT

badandy_svg wrote:
Can anyone help me out here??

Try objects online (link below to auditorium seating object) but make sure before you bye it that you contact them and ask if it works for the student version.

www.objectsonline.com/customer/search.php?substring=chair&neww=&in_category=&page=3

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:03:42 GMT

Laura wrote:
My best advice (short of someone coming up with an object for your use) would be to take one of the standard chairs from the AC library and manipulate the parameters to approximate those of an audience seat -- sometimes you don't need to be "exact" to get the idea across...

I did exactly this recently (just before AC10 came out, so not THAT recently, actually) with a chair with arms, arrayed so the arms overlapped the adjacent seat. Worked well enough, although would have created a few extra polygons for the render.

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:30:51 GMT

Ive completed an auditorium design recently and found excellent seating in the GDL object depository. Its called Foraform Furniture Library and is stored under the 'Furnishings' catagory. Once downloaded the seating can be found in the file 'Public Area'

Hope this helps

Re: Auditorium Seating

Andy Thomson — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:49:22 GMT

Danny wrote:
I...Its called Foraform Furniture Library and is stored under the 'Furnishings' catagory. Once downloaded the seating can be found in the file 'Public Area'

Beware the foraform mastergdl - it creates a complete set of project attributes that may be a great source of misery for an office with tidy standards.

Re: Auditorium Seating

Laura Yanoviak — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:27:43 GMT

andyro wrote:
Beware the foraform mastergdl - it creates a complete set of project attributes that may be a great source of misery for an office with tidy standards.

Yes -- this is a shame, as it's a very nice library...

Re: Auditorium Seating

Anonymous — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:12:20 GMT

I only used one type of seating from the library so thankfully I hav'nt come across this problem.