topic Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list in Modeling

New composite not showing up in available composite list

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:44:03 GMT

Hi,

I made a new composite, consisting of a brick wall of 80 cms. When creating it I made sure to mark that it can be used as a composite for walls.
However, when drawing the wall, I can not choose my newly created composite from the list.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Best regards,
Vincent

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Erwin Edel — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:22:21 GMT

You need to change the structure from Basic (which uses building materials) to Composite.

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:29:58 GMT

Erwin wrote:
You need to change the structure from Basic (which uses building materials) to Composite.

Ooh I see! Thank you very much for the fast reply! Is this a new feature in AC19? I'd done the same procedure as I did now already a lot of times in AC18 but never stumbled upon this before!

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Erwin Edel — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:35:42 GMT

Building materials were introduced in ArchiCAD17, so it shouldn't be new.

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 18:37:04 GMT

The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Barry Kelly — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:58:51 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.

Unless you want to fix the width of your wall.
Then even for a single skin I would use a composite so I don't have to manually set the wall width.

Barry.

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:02:46 GMT

Barry wrote:
laszlonagy wrote:
The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.
Unless you want to fix the width of your wall.
Then even for a single skin I would use a composite so I don't have to manually set the wall width.

Barry.

So you would create a Composite for each different thickness of the same Wall material? Like, 100 mm brick, 150 mm brick, 250 mm brick, etc.? Interesting idea.

Re: New composite not showing up in available composite list

Barry Kelly — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:10:11 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
So you would create a Composite for each different thickness of the same Wall material? Like, 100 mm brick, 150 mm brick, 250 mm brick, etc.? Interesting idea.

Exactly.

Barry.