topic Re: custom window??? in Modeling

custom window???

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:10:13 GMT

I've created a window by saving from parallel view... But my curved shape window cuts a rectangular hole in the wall...

Is it OK?
AC-9

Re: custom window???

TomWaltz — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:45:24 GMT

The part missing is the part that controls the opening, what Archicad calls WALLHOLE.

It's relatively simple:
Draw or copy a slab in the shape that you want the opening in the wall to be. Make the Element ID of the slab WALLHOLE. If you include the slab in your window when you "Save Selection as.....", Archicad will cut the hole to any shape.

For example:

Re: custom window???

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:35:03 GMT

WOW!!!

Thanks a lot!!! That is a real SECRET! )))))))
"tips and tricks" is not suitable for this technique... it should be put to something like "CHEATS" )))

thanks again

Re: custom window???

TomWaltz — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:48:20 GMT

It's not really a secret. It's in the user manual "Intro to Object Making" that comes with Archicad, where they talk about making custom doors & windows.

Re: custom window???

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:17:28 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
It's not really a secret. It's in the user manual "Intro to Object Making" that comes with Archicad, where they talk about making custom doors & windows.

yeah... you're right again... I'm blind

Re: custom window???

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:38:43 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
The part missing is the part that controls the opening, what Archicad calls WALLHOLE.

It's relatively simple:
Draw or copy a slab in the shape that you want the opening in the wall to be. Make the Element ID of the slab WALLHOLE. If you include the slab in your window when you "Save Selection as.....", Archicad will cut the hole to any shape.

For example:

[Off-Topic]
This is so funny. When I was a kid, we always watched these animation movies, and the coyote always ended up something similar to this.
But don't ask me how these animation movies got into socialist countries at end of the 70s, beginning of 80s. But they played them on national television.

Re: custom window???

TomWaltz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:09:35 GMT

I did this for one of my training seminars. No one ever asked if there was a limit to opening shapes anymore....

It got a serious laugh from the crowd.

Re: custom window???

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:39:02 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
I did this for one of my training seminars. No one ever asked if there was a limit to opening shapes anymore....

It got a serious laugh from the crowd.

No wonder.
Who would be more appropriate to go through a wall than the coyote. He is even doing it just for sports.

Re: custom window???

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:02:07 GMT

Reminds me of how a colleague explained CEO to his girlfriend:
"You could subtract a chair from a wall!"
and then demostrated it!

Re: custom window???

TomWaltz — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:10:00 GMT

I hope you mean SEO's. No one had ever explained to me what a CEO actually does 😉

Re: custom window???

Djordje — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:09:19 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
I hope you mean SEO's. No one had ever explained to me what a CEO actually does 😉

Gets rich ...