topic Archicad Collumns and grid in Modeling

Archicad Collumns and grid

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:09:07 GMT

Hello there,
I created a grid system with columns in archicad. I want to resize the grid and when i do that the columns stay on the same position when the grid enlarges or gets smaller, is that possible in Archicad to link the columns to the position on the grid?

Re: Archicad Columns and grid

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:13:32 GMT

Unfortunately, this is not possible to do. Columns cannot be associated to Grids or Grid intersections.
I know this is possible to do in Revit, maybe this is the reason you asked it.
ARCHICAD has only a few constraints that can be defined, such a linking the top and bottom of some Element types to Stories.
Hopefully, it will also have such intelligence in the future, because this would actually be useful, in my opinion.

You could make a wish for this feature is the Wishes section. If you do, please post its link in this thread.

Re: Archicad Collumns and grid

jl_lt — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:01:13 GMT

That linking would be great! It seems Allplan has this feature too so its not like they have to copy Revit, they just have to look in their own kitchen.

I havent read a single positive opinion about overlinked models, even from Revit Gurus and even Autodesk advices against over using it, but it would certainly be nice to have the ability to attach walls, beams and slab limits to axis (by any offset and globally or individually for each floor), Columns to axis intersections (also with any offset), maybe some objects to walls, and the ability to generate any Datum Level to which you can attach your slabs and objects. With these, the problems for split levels would be greatly reduced and the modeling capabilities for bigger buildings would go through the roof.

But wanting too many Revit things would turn Archicad into Revit?