topic Re: Slab Thickness Bug with Screen Shot in Installation & update

Slab Thickness Bug with Screen Shot

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:46:33 GMT

When I start Archicad 10 in its default "Archicad 10 template" everything is normal except when I access the slab tool.

In the part where it says slab thickness it is greyed out and I can't adjust it (its locked in at 300mm).

I'm pretty new to Archicad 10 so I'm not sure if its because somewhere there's a favourite tool ticked where it automatically locks the thickness to 300mm or something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Re: Slab Thickness Bug with Screen Shot

__archiben — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:15:32 GMT

New_Xieland wrote:
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

you are not alone. in fact, i think this issue has been brought up more times than anything else on the forum:

the reason you cannot change the slab thickness is because the slab has been assigned to a 'composite' structure: the predefined skins of the composite already have thickness values and so the slab thickness is a function of the composite and not user editable.

change the slab structure (cut fill) to a plain-ol'-vanilla fill - you can then edit the thickness as much as you want.

if you want to change the thickness - or even make your own composite structures - Options>Element Attributes>Composites... and edit away. composites can also be used in walls and roof (depending on whether you specifiy them to be such in the composites dialogue) so you may find the same 'problem' there too!

polite suggestion: there is a "search" function at the top of the page. try seeing if your issue exists and has already been discussed before posting . . . there is a whole load of information - particularly for new users - already here on the forum. good luck!

~/archiben

Re: Slab Thickness Bug with Screen Shot

__archiben — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:20:15 GMT

I wrote:
... in fact, i think this issue has been brought up more times than anything else on the forum ...

or maybe no longer - since GS decided that downloadable goodies was a good idea i think the "where are the accessories?" question must be running at no.1 by now

Re: Slab Thickness Bug with Screen Shot

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:45:47 GMT

Thank you ~/archiben for your suggestions.

Just like you said everything worked

I had thought that composits only existed for walls... argh getting use to ArchiCad 10 is going to take a while especially when you come from an Autocad background...

Anyway thanks for your help again.

Cheers