topic Re: Create Lion and Cow face in Modeling

Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:38:58 GMT

Hai,

I need to create face of lion and cow, I tried with morph, I am not getting it properly as I want.
I searched for object also, I dint get it.

Please any one help me in this.

I have attached the image how it is to be . The sectional view of that.

Thank you.

Roopa A

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 May 2020 06:48:45 GMT

Roopa wrote:
I need to create face of lion and cow

All I can say is good luck with that.
If you have to use Archicad exclusively, then the morph tool will be your best bet - however it is not meant to do this sort of thing as you seem to have found out.

You will be best to go to some other software that allows you to model these type of figures.
You may even find something modelled up already that you can use in that software.
Don't ask me what software you will need as I have no idea - and expect a steep learning curve to use it if you have to create your own model.
You will need to look for software that can export the model in a format that Archicad can import.

Barry.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:07:52 GMT

I created with morph, it is like this. See the image below.

And I created with profile manager. It is like this, See the image below.

The steps is within that face. So

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:10:07 GMT

Barry wrote:

Roopa wrote:
I need to create face of lion and cow

All I can say is good luck with that.
If you have to use Archicad exclusively, then the morph tool will be your best bet - however it is not meant to do this sort of thing as you seem to have found out.

You will be best to go to some other software that allows you to model these type of figures.
You may even find something modelled up already that you can use in that software.

I checeked that. But I dint found the proper one.
Don't ask me what software you will need as I have no idea - and expect a steep learning curve to use it if you have to create your own model.

Learning curve - using this we can create this model??
You will need to look for software that can export the model in a format that Archicad can import.

Yes ok.

Barry.

Thank you
Roopa A

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:35:43 GMT

Roopa wrote:
I created with morph, it is like this. See the image below.

And I created with profile manager. It is like this, See the image below.

The steps is within that face. So

Something simplistic like this is about the best you will get without a lot more effort and trouble.
But if you want a full 3D model that looks much more realistic you will need to look at other software.
And be aware that the more realistic it is, the more polygons it will have and the more it will affect the performance of Archicad.

Barry.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:40:58 GMT

Barry wrote:

Roopa wrote:
I created with morph, it is like this. See the image below.

And I created with profile manager. It is like this, See the image below.

The steps is within that face. So

Something simplistic like this is about the best you will get without a lot more effort and trouble.
But if you want a full 3D model that looks much more realistic you will need to look at other software.

Do you any idea, which software it is??

Barry wrote:
And be aware that the more realistic it is, the more polygons it will have and the more it will affect the performance of Archicad.

Barry.

We can save it is a object and import it na??

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Barry Kelly — Tue, 19 May 2020 07:57:07 GMT

Roopa wrote:
Do you any idea, which software it is??

No I don't.
Someone else may have an idea.
Blender maybe - but I am just guessing (and I believe it is free).

Roopa wrote:
We can save it is a object and import it na??

You will need to find a common format that the software can export (save) as, and that Archicad can import as.
Archicad can handle quite a few 3D formats so you should be able to find something compatible.

Barry.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

DGSketcher — Tue, 19 May 2020 08:20:40 GMT

It's surprising what gets modelled with Sketchup. See if you can find a .SKP model with a google search or ask on their forums. You should be able to bring a SKP file straight into AC with a limited number of adjustments for presentation.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 19 May 2020 09:09:18 GMT

Ok thank you,

I will with Blender.

Thank you so much.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

vistasp — Tue, 19 May 2020 16:03:38 GMT

As DGSketcher suggested, you're likely to find all the animals you want at the Sketchup 3D warehouse.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Wed, 20 May 2020 06:51:01 GMT

I checked in this.

And even in Thingiverse, Archibase planet, Archieve3d.net.

I dint got the I want,
Atleast similar also dint got.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

vistasp — Wed, 20 May 2020 07:09:33 GMT

Ah, well, then you have no choice but to model it yourself.

Hope it works out for you.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Wed, 20 May 2020 11:51:17 GMT

I have created with morph.

How to make it as solid or to look like solid??

Here is the image attached.

Is it is ok? Or need to do some corrections!

Suggestions please.

How to make it still realistic??

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Erwin Edel — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:09:27 GMT

If you have access to the actual sculptures: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/awesome-3d-scan-app-0/118404

That might be a quick solution for you.

The one time I had to do a sculpture, I just went for 'boxing' it out with basic shapes and described that actual sculpture in the contract documents. No-one in their right mind was going to pay me for that amount of hours of trying to model something that some factory just has lying on the shelf (they won't reference my drawings) or if it is existing already, even less reason to model it accurately. Just my (im)polite opinion 😉

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Mon, 25 May 2020 04:59:30 GMT

Please can anyone help me in this. I want realistic model of this. Not getting in the proper way

Here is the view attached.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Nader Belal — Mon, 25 May 2020 20:14:52 GMT

@Roopa

Right now you have catched my intrest ... and I would like to see how it can be done.

On another side, I would try to download a nice 3D model head for those animals, and make sure that they can be manipulated in Rhino, Why ??

So that you can use the Grasshopper ArchiCAD connection to make those time consuming adjustments easily and quickly, and send the data to ArchiCAD as Morphs ... unless you need something really specific which in this case you will need a 3D sculpture artist, that can export his work to a file exchange format compatible with ArchiCAD.

Out of curiosity, does you requirements have something to do with Minoan or Hindu architecture ??

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 26 May 2020 05:17:29 GMT

Moonlight wrote:
@Roopa

Right now you have catched my intrest ... and I would like to see how it can be done.

Ok...

Moonlight wrote:
On another side, I would try to download a nice 3D model head for those animals, and make sure that they can be manipulated in Rhino, Why ??

Ok thank you,.

I searched in websites which I know. But I dint got the result..

Moonlight wrote:
So that you can use the Grasshopper ArchiCAD connection to make those time consuming adjustments easily and quickly, and send the data to ArchiCAD as Morphs ... unless you need something really specific which in this case you will need a 3D sculpture artist, that can export his work to a file exchange format compatible with ArchiCAD.

I dont have Grasshopper..

Moonlight wrote:
Out of curiosity, does you requirements have something to do with Minoan or Hindu architecture ??

Hindu architecture.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Roopa A — Tue, 26 May 2020 07:43:28 GMT

I downloaded from archibase.com. Here is the link.

https://archibase.co/download/ce7e3456.html
https://archibase.co/download/21576988.html

Now I need to edit that model. I converted into morph. I need to open the mouth of the animal from that we have a step. How to do that??

I splited the model. Next how to edit??

Here is the image attached

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Barry Kelly — Tue, 26 May 2020 08:40:31 GMT

Roopa wrote:
Now I need to edit that model. I converted into morph. I need to open the mouth of the animal from that we have a step. How to do that??

That is the bit you will find is rather difficult.
Archicad is really not very good at this sort of modelling.

I would split the head so you have a top and bottom jaw.
Then split vertically where you want the bottom jaw to pivot.
You might want to place a temporary roof/slab/wall to get the cutting plane easily.

Now I would rotate the bottom jaw down.
Now the hard bit will be adding surfaces to join up the gaps.
Then union all the pieces back into one morph.

Add slabs,beams to form the passage you need and then SEO that from the morph.

I am sure it is much easier said than done.

Barry.

Re: Create Lion and Cow face

Hmooslechner — Tue, 26 May 2020 09:18:38 GMT

I would mould it in clay in the way i want it and then i would make an 3D-Scan. (or let mould it by an artist i trust and 3D-Scan it.) This is artwork - nor architectural work.