topic Re: Drag elements to the ground level in Modeling

Drag elements to the ground level

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:32:47 GMT

Hi,

For an urban design project, I have to lay hundreds of buildings (morphs) on an irregular mesh. I want each of them to be set at the best height as possible (not flying above the ground nor being too much inside the ground).

I can't really use the 'gravitation to mesh' tool because I should save and insert each building one by one...

Until now I have always dragged each single building down to the snap point between the Z-axis and the ground surface (in the 3D window). But that's really tedious so does someone have a way to automate that? Or any other tool to recommend?

Thanks in advance,

Maxime
(ArchiCAD20)

Re: Drag elements to the ground level

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 20:40:43 GMT

I think you could use the Grasshopper-ARCHICAD Connection to achieve this.
You can place the Morphs. Then you would create a Node Network in Grasshopper to change the vertical position of each Morph to gravitate to the Mesh.
I have not tried this myself, but I think this could work.

Re: Drag elements to the ground level

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:14:26 GMT

Hi, sorry for not helping, but that is typically one thing which would be simple if there was a script language for archicad.
Grasshopper will let one do this, but everyone has to do his own GH definition and have to own a Rhino copy. If that was a script it could be shared and run from archicad.

Re: Drag elements to the ground level

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:17:22 GMT

Yes, I would love that, too.
Until we get it, Grasshopper is the tool to do it, if anything.