topic Re: Round Object in Profiler in Modeling

Round Object in Profiler

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:23:22 GMT

I am trying to figure out how to make a balister with the Profiler tool in Archicad 14 and can't get it work. The attached photo is what I am trying to acclompish.

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Erwin Edel — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:12:35 GMT

In ArchiCAD 14 you could make a complex profile for wall of a little less than half of the baluster. Draw a circular wall with the complex profile with a radius equal to the bit you substracted from half. You will end up with two half circle walls.

The profiler tool should probably work too, but this way it is a lot easier to make edits to the shape by modifying the complex profile.

Re: Round Object in Profiler

David Maudlin — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:04:45 GMT

qwsoftdraw:

The Profiler instruction are here: Profiler Instructions, but I agree with Erwin's advice. You can always save the Profiled Wall as an Object.

David

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:21:57 GMT

I had previously read through these instructions, and they don't make any sense.

I also made a wall profile with the balister section, but to get a small object like a balister to work correctly, you have to do many points around the "circle cross section" in plan. The final result in elevation is seeing multiple vertical lines in the balister.

Re: Round Object in Profiler

David Maudlin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:40:27 GMT

qwsoftdraw wrote:
I also made a wall profile with the balister section, but to get a small object like a balister to work correctly, you have to do many points around the "circle cross section" in plan. The final result in elevation is seeing multiple vertical lines in the balister.

Works here (Profile Manager, AC 14). Try posting some images of the profile and results to better explain your issue.

David

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Erwin Edel — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:23:57 GMT

Hopefully this image clears things up.

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:20:08 GMT

Erwin wrote:
Hopefully this image clears things up.

Erwin,

Drawing a circular wall worked. Thank you for your thoughtfulness in taking time to help.

David,

Thank you for your thoughtfulness in taking time to at least try to help.

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:29:36 GMT

For anyone else that may need to know the steps for creating a more complex column or balister, I have made a PDF showing the steps for doing this at:

http://houseplans.qwsoftdraw.com/ArchicadHelp/AC14-HowToMakeARoundColumnOrBalister.pdf

Re: Round Object in Profiler

Erwin Edel — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:35:25 GMT

Glad it worked out