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lattice and fence

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:45:43 GMT

I am looking for a lattice and fence ArchiCAD object(s). I have attached an image of the fence that I would like to model. The portion that I'm showing is a simple shower enclosure but it is typical of all of the fences in this project.
Does anyone have recommendations for a lattice tool or better yet a lattice and fence tool that would model this fence?
There are several lattice objects on Objects Online. Any recommnedations on which one is best?
Thank you,
John

Re: lattice and fence

Dwight — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:06:47 GMT

How did you set the sketch renderer to get that effect?

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:24:26 GMT

Dwight wrote:
How did you set the sketch renderer to get that effect?

Dwight,
I'm thinking that you are smirking when you wrote this. What you are looking at is a pencil (really an actual pencil and real paper) sketch of the project.

Do you have a lattice that you can recommend?

Thank you,
John

Re: lattice and fence

Dwight — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:44:24 GMT

I was joking.

It is so astonishing to see a hand drawing [that actually describes anything, as compared to my insane doodles] in my practice that one can almost not believe it.

Sorry that I do not know of such an object. - I'd be making the lattice from a bitmap, however. How hard is it to do this with some posts and wall bits?

I'll make you the lattice bitmap for the top in a minute.

Always looking to make a book sale.

Re: lattice and fence

Dwight — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:55:25 GMT

to atone, then, for being a goof.

this has an alpha channel to knock out the voids. place it in the texturemap for the internal engine, size it - i guessed at 16" or so. Tell the alpha channel to be transparent and bump, then tell lightworks to match the internal engine.

That might not be all.

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:08:22 GMT

you could use truss maker to create a latice. Of course this would mean using it for each section of fence.

Re: lattice and fence

Dwight — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:22:09 GMT

Absolutely brilliant and great for closeup. The trussmaker is versatile!

But you'd make the diagonals on lapped planes for shadow articulation.
One set of diagonals, then flipped for the cross pieces.

That shadow is important, as is controlling the opposing grain direction.

In my bitmap - a nasty little thing only good for distant views - the edges of the lattice pieces are lighter to simulate the change in plane.

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:21:08 GMT

I got this... diagonal lathe paneling.GSM... from objects on line years ago, and I use it constantly on drawings and renderings. All the ones on my site use it, but these small images w/ sketch settings don't show much.. but I think it's a great object. BTW, easy to link a property object to for take-offs.

http://www.thompsonplans.com/plans/pages/details/1414C but not much detail here at this web resolution and size, but you can get good detail.

I'll post a screen shot with AC's engine.

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:47:28 GMT

ps.. looks good in section details

Re: lattice and fence

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:25:17 GMT

Beautiful section and elevation, Rick!

What's happening in your elevation with the shutters? The window trim color is showing through in the recess between the shutter frame and panel.

Karl

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:30:25 GMT

thanks... yeah... beats me, just one of those things to keep me smiling. I'm not the obsessive type (drugs helped a lot:) so I just move on and ask not.

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:18:54 GMT

"Rick Thompson" wrote:
I got this... diagonal lathe paneling.GSM... from objects on line years ago, and I use it constantly on drawings and renderings. All the ones on my site use itquote]

Rick,
What is the name of the lathe paneling object that you are using?
Thank you,
John

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:28:00 GMT

That's the name on the object, which is all the record I have of it.

This is it.. I found it:)

http://objectsonline.com/customer/product.php?productid=114511&cat=0&page=1

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:56:42 GMT

Rick wrote:
That's the name on the object, which is all the record I have of it.

This is it.. I found it:)

http://objectsonline.com/customer/product.php?productid=114511&cat=0&page=1

Rick,
Does the object you're reffering to allow for angles other than 45 degrees?? Also, is it just the lattice or can you also turn a frame on around it?

Thanks,
Dan K

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:27:51 GMT

afraid not, wish it did. I emailed with someone on this list a few months back who had such an object, and was willing to develop it more and sell it, but I didn't follow through being lazy with the money hassles (she's Austrian). If she reading this maybe she could go ahead and place it on objects online... I'd buy one and download it, and I would think many here would.

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:09:41 GMT

Rick wrote:
afraid not, wish it did. I emailed with someone on this list a few months back who had such an object, and was willing to develop it more and sell it, but I didn't follow through being lazy with the money hassles (she's Austrian). If she reading this maybe she could go ahead and place it on objects online... I'd buy one and download it, and I would think many here would.

Rick,
In searching the forum for lattice objects I read your old post
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=21528&highlight=lattice#21528
and e-mailed her about a lattice library/object. Her website is
http://www.parametricprojections.com.au
The lattice is at
http://www.parametricprojections.com.au/Library/Rails.htm
She may be Austrian but her company is in Western Australia. She takes PayPal now so there was no hassel when I paid for the lattice object that I purchased today.

John

Re: lattice and fence

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:13:50 GMT

Gees, If only I read this more often, bit hard to find the time. I am Australian, not Austrian, just a bit of a difference. I am getting more organized though.

Julia

Re: lattice and fence

Rick Thompson — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:24:22 GMT

Sounded like an Austrian accent to me... sorry

Glad to hear you have pay-pal... thanks