topic Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face in Modeling

How to apply thickness to a morph face

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:05:19 GMT

Hello,
I made a curved morph face (roof sheet), then how to give a thickness?
- If I copy a former morph down then subtract it, t is not an even thickness
- if by extruding, the segmented sub-faces, there will be confilcts because the extruded direction is different (not just vertical)

Regards

Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face

Podolsky — Sun, 30 May 2021 19:41:26 GMT

This function does not exist in ArchiCAD. You need to use external 3D modeller. You can try Blender, as it's free of charge. The best way to exchange 3D data with Blender is DAE file format. It keeps textures and scale.

In Blender you can use modifier "Solidify".

Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 31 May 2021 08:05:36 GMT

I can imagine you could probably use the Archicad-Grasshopper Connection as well: take the Morph surface, use the "Deconstruct" Archicad Node in Grasshopper to get its geometry, give it thickness, make a solid body out of it, and then create a new Morph based on that using the Archicad Nodes in Grasshopper.

Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face

Jeff Galbraith — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:35:45 GMT

Is there any particular reason this function does not exist? It has always seemed like a missing feature frankly. I'm not interested in buying another software program and paying staff to figure out how to use it, and then dealing with updating imported geometry throughout design development...especially for something this basic.

Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face

DGSketcher — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:49:57 GMT

Jeff wrote:
Is there any particular reason this function does not exist? It has always seemed like a missing feature frankly. I'm not interested in buying another software program and paying staff to figure out how to use it, and then dealing with updating imported geometry throughout design development...especially for something this basic.

+1 There is Mesh to Roof in the Goodies, but that isn't a "supported" tool. Applying a thickness to a Morph Face and also having it as an option in the Mesh tool would be good. I assume the Mesh tool would probably do a better job of maintaining the thickness, whereas a Morph can be freely edited once created. Any chance of making this a wish?

Re: How to apply thickness to a morph face

Hmooslechner — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 04:44:13 GMT

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