topic Re: Mesh plan cut in Modeling

Mesh plan cut

redmonki — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:32:27 GMT

Our office has been struggling with meshes and their representation in plan specifically the cut plane through the mesh. The work around of creating morphs and subsequent fills is really tiresome given the size of the sites we are working on and the design iterations we move through.

Has their been any break through's on this front? Is AC 24 planning to implement this at all?

Re: Mesh plan cut

Marc H — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:50:03 GMT

Can you clarify the issue or provide an example?

Re: Mesh plan cut

strangeday — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:07:23 GMT

Hi redmonki, if I understand your problem, you need the plan section of the terrain that reflect the cutting height at a specific floor, as ad example for a completely or partial underground floor(a building partially nested into a sloped hill is the most famous example),
in this case I use a workaround, mixing two view on layout, the architectural floor plan, from plan view and the sitework(using layer combination) from a 3d cutted view, to reflect the real situation at a given height,

clearly this is a workaround and a better management of the terrain would be very welcome, anyway i found better to maintain the mesh instead of transformation into a morph.

About AC24, only dev and betatester know....for now the only clear thing is the addition of the MEP modeler and a substantial delay compared to last year

Re: Mesh plan cut

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:03:10 GMT

strangeday wrote:
About AC24, only devs and beta testers know....for now the only clear thing is the addition of the MEP modeler and a substantial delay compared to last year

What do you mean? ARCHICAD 23 came out in September last year.

Re: Mesh plan cut

runxel — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:00:15 GMT

@redmonki
The best trick I know is using a Morph plane @ the cutting plane height and doing a SEO with the mesh being the operator (!) and the morph the target. Op is set to intersection
You will be amazed how great that works!

Re: Mesh plan cut

strangeday — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 20:06:20 GMT

Hi Laszlo, I probably said badly, I was referring to feature set presentation of AC 24 that is delayed from the usual timeframe of early May, the mid of May for AC23 if I remember well.

Re: Mesh plan cut

Marc H — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 02:18:22 GMT

redmonki wrote:
Our office has been struggling with meshes and their representation in plan specifically the cut plane through the mesh. The work around of creating morphs and subsequent fills is really tiresome given the size of the sites we are working on and the design iterations we move through. . . .

I'm not sure if this would be any more effective, but how about using cutting planes, view perpendicular, and saving a view? I believe, after review of the above replies, this is what Strangeday is suggesting.

Re: Mesh plan cut

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:39:16 GMT

strangeday wrote:
Hi Laszlo, I probably said badly, I was referring to feature set presentation of AC 24 that is delayed from the usual timeframe of early May, the mid of May for AC23 if I remember well.

OK, I get it.
By the way, this may answer your question:

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=69922