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Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:02:17 GMT

I want to make a composite wall with 19 centimeters in width, and 1.5 centimeters in covering on both end of the wall.
Is this possible in Archicad ? It seems a 0.5 can not be entered as the thickness, only round numbers. Right?

thank you for the reply.

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Dwight — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:38:57 GMT

What tolerances/accuracies have you set for working units? I work in mm - there's no problem entering 0.5.

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:39:10 GMT

No problems here to input 1,5cm! (decimal separator is "comma")

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:27:45 GMT

Thank you for the reply. Both of you.
I am working with cm (centimeters).

My problem was, that I needed to set 1 Decimal in the Working Units (both for Model and Layout units)
Now I can enter .5 as a layer thickness into the Composite structures. Andro this is very strange, maybe we are using different types of Archicad 14. At my place I can enter numbers with .5 but not with ,5

Now I am interested in new problem: Why Dimension tool does not show the exact value of mortar thickness? The thickness is 1.5 cm, but when I add a dimension marks on my wall, the value varies to 1.5 +- 0.10. Why is that?
Take a look at the video, maybe it will be more clear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6M3ZfSuaFI

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Erwin Edel — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:10:46 GMT

You can define how many decimals and rounding up / down in project preferences.

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Appendix_Settings.12.026.html#1003010

save a preset once you are happy with the settings and then define this preset in your views.

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:40:23 GMT

Dot "." or comma "," for decimal is a global settings of Windows, not in ArchiCAD!

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:20:04 GMT

Thank you for the reply. Both of you.
Erwin I did not understand you.
By "rounding up" you meant: "Extra accuracy"? But that is not what I need. Extra accuracy adds more accuracy to the value.

Sandro I did not understand you eaither. Archicad does not allow usage of "dot" and "comma", but windows does?

Sorry for inconvenience. I do not wish to sound rude or arrogant, it`s just I did not understand.

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Dwight — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:31:29 GMT

You set up the dot comma thing in your Regional Customizer

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:42:13 GMT

Thank you Dwight. Now I understand what Andro said: If I am going to use the "dot" or "comma" separator as a decimal sign, this depends on the Windows Regional Customizer in Windows Control Panel. Not on Archicad.
Right?

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Dwight — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:43:27 GMT

Try it and see.

Re: Composite wall with 1.5 centimeters covering?

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:26:07 GMT

It worked perfectly. Thank you once again Dwight.

But what about this:

Erwin wrote:
You can define how many decimals and rounding up / down in project preferences.

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/publishing/ac15_help_INT/Files/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=Appendix_Settings.12.026.html#1003010

save a preset once you are happy with the settings and then define this preset in your views.

Erwin I did not understand you.
By "rounding up" you meant: "Extra accuracy"? But that is not what I need. Extra accuracy adds more accuracy to the value.