topic Re: Stone texture on my window in Libraries & objects

Stone texture on my window

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:29:37 GMT

Not sure if I am asking this question in the right place but here goes...

I would like the margin around my window to be a grey metal colour but Archicad is wrapping the stone texture as shown in the image below onto the margin around the window. Any what Wall Closure or Reveal settings I need to adjust?

Re: Stone texture on my window

Erwin Edel — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 07:45:31 GMT

You might be able to fake it with like a 1 mm trim created by having the outside trim function with a negative offset.

Other than that, the obvious solution (that requires lots of updating) is puting a morph face there.

I'd probably give up as the lines will merge to one big line in print pretty much.

Re: Stone texture on my window

fuzzytnth3 — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:41:55 GMT

Sadly there are 366 windows on this building of various shapes and sizes, so would be nice to be able to control it in the window settings

Re: Stone texture on my window

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:19:50 GMT

It may be your window casing is turned off but it's still influencing your window reveal. You could try turning the casing on, adjust it to a smaller size or 0 or maybe there is a way to control the reveal attributes from there (I don't have my key with me to check).

I think this is the same problem I've had before where the setting to control that is hidden even though it still has influence. But I think that since the casing is turned off, it shouldn't still have an influence on my model so I skip it as the problem because I think off means off. Hopefully this helps.

Re: Stone texture on my window

Erwin Edel — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 11:21:28 GMT

You could set the whole reveal to be similar to what the wall has set up as the side surface, but I don't think that is what you want either.

You could probably change the script for the reveal setting, but that requires a lot of digging around in CALL-ed objects to find where they are setting up the parameters. It might save time for the 366 windows, though maybe not.

You could also use a shell in the U-shape of the trime with the proper thickness. You can copy that around in elevation and adjust as needed or put it in hotlinked modules for the different shapes.