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Question to GDL GURU: How to create a Bended Torus?

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:00:33 GMT

As i know, this is unavailable to model bended torus surface in POWERFUL Archicad 12, although its GDL is a quite mighty thing.

Is anybody Have an idea?

Re: Question to GDL GURU: How to create a Bended Torus?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:08 GMT

Since a Torus is basically a rotated circle profile:
I would say try to experiment with the TUBE command.
With the TUBE command you can define a profile and you can define a path in 3D space. That should work, if I understood you question right.

Re: Question to GDL GURU: How to create a Bended Torus?

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:56 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Since a Torus is basically a rotated circle profile:
I would say try to experiment with the TUBE command.
With the TUBE command you can define a profile and you can define a path in 3D space. That should work, if I understood you question right.

Thnks for a direction...!
But it would be better some real examples of some "tubes".

Re: Question to GDL GURU: How to create a Bended Torus?

jshuether — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:30:35 GMT

Download the "tubes" library from the following link:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/archilib.od/index.html

One of the tube objects should be able to do what you want.

Re: Question to GDL GURU: How to create a Bended Torus?

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:29:06 GMT

Like this one?

Notice that junction is not smooth for 360°, but this is doable, with some work.
This is a scratch example from a previous object, no time to investigate further. Hope this can help.

You can thank Braza (Paulo H. Santos) for the "smooth rise" formula, definitely a good one. 😉

Cheers,

Olivier