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question to ArchiForma users

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:02:13 GMT

Hi,

During the modeling of bathroom details I noticed some annoying behaviour of revolve/spiral tool in AF2.0. I cannot revolve desired shape with zero radius, it always end up with 1mm off center (see attached picture). Am I missing something or it's a bug? Does anyone have the same problem?

Greetings

Re: question to ArchiForma users

Fabrizio Diodati — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 07:26:19 GMT

This behaviour comes from some GDL limitation.
You can workaround it by using a polyline instead of a fill: if you use a closed profile you will always get the "central hole", if you use an open profile you won't get the hole...

look at the attached image.

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Re: question to ArchiForma users

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:21:50 GMT

Thank you Fabrizio for the reply. It works in most cases well but in this particular one I need to have solid element to drill a hole in it. Hollow one does not look very convincing. My workaround was to change the profile a little bit and add an extra gap to cover the hole, but it's just not practical to do this every time.
Anyway thanks again..

Re: question to ArchiForma users

Fabrizio Diodati — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:46:19 GMT

I'm really sorry but I don't agree with you: using an open polyline doesn't result an hollow element.
Please try: i just did a SOLID element by using this procedure.

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Re: question to ArchiForma users

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:11:29 GMT

Yes, you're right Fabrizio, my mistake . I guess I used to work the way AF 1.0 works where you make hollow alements with polyline and solid with fills (which I think is more intuitive). However I still cannot understand why there wasn't this "GDL limitations" you mentioned. Apart of many incredible improvements I found in AF 2.0 this one seems to be small step backward, anyway sinse I grab your attention maybe you can answer this not-FAQ:

1. Is there a way to set 'default' value for 'rotate' function? In 99% cases I use 90 degree rotation and it will be very helpful to have it set like that.

2. Is there a smart way to model/save models to make them as small as possible?

3. Like above but to save object with no "additional information". Let's say I'm happy with what I have and don't need to have possibilty of future changes?

Here you can find my recent work with AF2.0

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=44500#44500

Greetings and keep on good work.