topic Re: Wiki help in Modeling

Wiki help

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:30:23 GMT

I've been reading this Wiki:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Composite%20Walls%20with%20Varying%20Skin%20Heights?highlight=%28%5C%E2%80%A2%5C+ArchiCAD%5C+11%29

and following what it says to do about setting the vertical stretch but my walls still won't change height. Is there something missing from the instructions?

Rick

Re: Wiki help

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:15:20 GMT

Looks OK to me - on quick scan. Note that you cannot shrink a wall shorter than its profile - you can only make it taller by stretching the vertical stretch zone.

Karl

Re: Wiki help

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:44:37 GMT

That would be the problem then. I knew that was usually the case but I thought this Wiki article was showing a way around that. Oh well, Trim to Roof still works.

Rick

Re: Wiki help

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:42:05 GMT

I guess I can make my walls really short from the get-go.

Rick

Re: Wiki help

Dwight — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:44:18 GMT

There's ALWAYS a solution.

Re: Wiki help

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:01:37 GMT

That's pretty much my motto, Dwight. I also believe you can engineer anything to work.

Rick

Re: Wiki help

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:18:59 GMT

Wrathchild wrote:
I guess I can make my walls really short from the get-go.

Rick

Actually, that is what one should do for complex profiles - make the wall as short as it every might be (or some reasonable small unit - such as 1' tall), so that you have the flexibility to make it some arbitrary height.

I've seen a number of people who have created profiles for walls that are 10' tall - kind of eliminates possibilities when done that way.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Wiki help

Dwight — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:20:27 GMT

That was also Rube Goldberg's motto.

http://www.break.com/index/best_rube_goldberg_ever.html

Re: Wiki help

Dwight — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:25:58 GMT

Karl wrote:
Actually, that is what one should do for complex profiles - make the wall as short as it every might be

And of course, everyone knows that the stretch range can be limited to specific regions of the section?

You move the dotted lines to encapsulate the stretchy area.....

Re: Wiki help

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:54:02 GMT

Dwight wrote:
That was also Rube Goldberg's motto.

http://www.break.com/index/best_rube_goldberg_ever.html

Wonder how many takes it took to get that all to work. ROFL

Rick

Re: Wiki help

Dwight — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:59:07 GMT

Not unlike debugging a GDL script.