topic Re: Corrugated steel?? in Visualization

Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:00:43 GMT

Hello all,

I did some searching through the forum for this and couldn't find anything, which makes me think im overlooking something, and this is a simple question.. but... here it is.

I'm in the middle of designing a building which uses corrugated steel decking as a wall cladding material, something which isnt all that uncommon IMHO, but I can't seem to find a corrugated steel texture anywhere... I'm sure I could make one myself, but was just wondering if there was something out there...

cheers,
dan

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:43:04 GMT

Daniel wrote:
I'm sure I could make one myself, but was just wondering if there was something out there...

Tip to make one yourself:
In AC Lib you find Corrugated Sheets. Set all the parameters that you need for CS, generate 3d Model, render it and save as under any image extension to use as texture.

Re: Corrugated steel??

Chadwick — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:48:30 GMT

Thats a good tip - you can also explode the AC 9 library so that you have access to all the texture maps that it uses for materials. There are two different corrugated sheet materials under the "Roof 9" directory. You can than modify these as you need to. Or just use them as they are in the library. They are under the Object Library/ [TImg] Textures/Roof 9.

Hope this helps.

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:23:46 GMT

Thanks a load for the replies, I think I will just use the texture from the AC9 Lib, but now I have another silly question... how do I explode the library ?

cheers,
dan

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:42:22 GMT

Daniel wrote:
Thanks a load for the replies, I think I will just use the texture from the AC9 Lib, but now I have another silly question... how do I explode the library ?

cheers,
dan

1.Go to
...\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD 9\ArchiCAD Library 9

2. double click on "Object Library 9.pla"

3. AC9 will be started and "Open Archive Project" dialog will appear. Choose "Extruct Elements to a Folder" option. Click on Extruct Button.

4. Select where you want the lib be extructed

then just explore extructed library and have fun!

Good luck

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:59:00 GMT

so simple

thanks again for the help.

cheers,
dan

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:25:44 GMT

just an FYI, what I ended up doing was creating two seperate wall composites, one which has a concrete veneer on it, which is the exterior finish of the building, save for where there is corrugated steel. Then I created a second composite, without the veneer, which leaves the wall thinner, so I can place a GDL object ontop of the wall... hope that makes sense...

below is a floor plan view, and a rendered view of an example of what I did. Let me know if you guys have a better idea on how do this.

cheers,
dan

EDIT: just so I don't get eaten alive.... those arent the actual wall composites I used... I just threw those together for an example...

Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:26:50 GMT

I'm creating a vaulted roof at the moment that needs to have corrugated zinculum on the top.
Is there not a predefined lightworks shader that can do this? or do I need to do as described above and just use a texture. Would this need a bump map applied? I'm pretty new to lightworks so pointing me in the right direction with bump maps etc would be most appreciated

Re: Corrugated steel??

__archiben — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:43:21 GMT

neil wrote:
I'm creating a vaulted roof at the moment that needs to have corrugated zinculum on the top.
Is there not a predefined lightworks shader that can do this? or do I need to do as described above and just use a texture. Would this need a bump map applied? I'm pretty new to lightworks so pointing me in the right direction with bump maps etc would be most appreciated

you can do it with bump maps: search this forum for "textures" and you'll find links to many site with the kind of texture maps you'll need.

however, depending on the scale of the project, i would use the 'roof surfacer' tool for a better, more realistic presentation - particularly at the edges and junctions where, quite frankly, bump mapping things like this simply looks like the poor-man's alternative.

it can be found under Extras>Accesories>Roof Accessories... remember to select a roof first of course. additionally, you may be in possession of the NZTools pack from CADimage? there is another roof surfacer tool, called 'roof builder', which does a similar job, but is tailored specifically for the type of construction found in new zealand . . . and accessorises your roof with spoutings and gutters as well...

if your roof is huge you may not have a choice - surfacing a roof with something like a corrugated sheet takes up far more 3D processing power. you may get away with using the 'trapeziod' corrugations rather than the sinuous ones to ease the strain a bit...........

HTH
~/archiben

Re: Corrugated steel??

Dwight — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:55:24 GMT

here's what I did.

add the texture to the displacement shader for zinc.

Re: Corrugated steel??

Dwight — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:56:02 GMT

the texture

Re: Corrugated steel??

Dwight — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:56:45 GMT

the dialog

Re: Corrugated steel??

__archiben — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:40:15 GMT

go with dwight . . . .

roof surfacer can't handle what you want because of graphisoft's inability to give us true curves - your vaulted roof will get split down into many flat segments . . . which the surfacer tool splits as well with nasty results!

~/archiben

Re: Corrugated steel??

Petros Ioannou — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:44:21 GMT

"... because of graphisoft's inability to give us true curves..."So imagine what would happen if you had to model something like this....

Re: Corrugated steel??

Petros Ioannou — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:46:28 GMT

Ooops! Forgot the credits...

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Re: Corrugated steel??

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:50:39 GMT

Thanks a lot for the help guys, the texture from Dwight works really well

~/archiben wrote:

your vaulted roof will get split down into many flat segments

~/archiben

If only mine would... it just seems to comes out split into only a few flat segments. I thought I could solve this by using profiler for my roof, but even that still isnt much better.
Is there any setting to adjust the quality of the vaulted roofs? archiben's example seem to shows far more 'segments' than mine.