topic Re: Faceted Walls in Modeling

Faceted Walls

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:09:48 GMT

I need to be able to make walls which are not co-planar. Each wall needs to have only 2 facets. Imagine a square with one diagonal line running across it and the two resulting halves are not co-planar. I'm pretty new to ArchiCAD. Any suggestions?

Re: Faceted Walls

Dwight — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:39:50 GMT

Like… why?

There are many ways to make irregular forms in Archicad but more information is needed.....

Re: Faceted Walls

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:26:14 GMT

I've attached an example of what I'm talking about. This is an image out of Form Z. Does this help explain what I'm talking about?

Re: Faceted Walls

Dwight — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:37:50 GMT

Fine.
I'll stay polite and not ask why.

This could be done in a number of ways:

Taking a slice out of a wall or

by using a mesh - you move a top node back from the face a bit.

Re: Faceted Walls

Dwight — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:39:33 GMT

see the top node offset....

Re: Faceted Walls

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:15:58 GMT

Sorry for not answering your question before. I am an architecture student and this is part of a project for a design studio. My project has a lot of these "cubes" which are sort of twisted and distorted. The image you show is exactly the end result that I'm talking about. But I may not be able to use that method because I need these to be walls. Just to confirm, you did that using a mesh? Is there any way to keep it as a wall so that I could still punch holes in them for windows/doors?

Re: Faceted Walls

Dwight — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:41:10 GMT

To do this nonsense as a wall, you would want to make a slightly tilted wall, then use another slightly tilted wall to slice the face away slightly in a "Solid Element Operation." SEO.

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And Complex Profiles, too since the higher modeling functions, as poor as they are, are best achieved through these tricks.