topic Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope in Modeling

How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Operati

st — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:37:39 GMT

Hi everyone, I found this wall in a client's file and I can't work out how it can exist.

It is a Basic wall, yet its geometry is fully dynamic and freely adjustable.

How can someone create a wall like this without using a Complex Profile or Solid Element Operations, while keeping it a Basic wall? I don't know how the client built it, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope

Lpalma — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:45:53 GMT

Take a look at the Log Details menu.

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/28/INT/_AC28_Help/040_ElementsVB/040_ElementsVB-17.htm

Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope

Barry Kelly — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:48:32 GMT

@Lpalma ,

You beat me to it!

Barry.

Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope

JeffH — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:24:30 GMT

Could also be achieved via SEO's but there is no icon indicating that those were used in that wall in your 3d snapshot with the wall selected.

Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope

st — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:43:12 GMT

Wow! Thanx guys! I really wonder how such a tool can exist and yet not offer a little more detail. I mean, couldn’t a wall have vertical grooves like these, or could you assign a specific profile to those grooves? I design industrial steel buildings with cladding panels. If I could use the panel profile as part of the wall itself, that would be really interesting and useful.

Re: How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Ope

Barry Kelly — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:58:55 GMT

It is a very old solution literally made for log wall houses.

I think it was around even before complex profiles and has become obsolete and pretty much forgotten since complex profiles have become so popular.

I think some may still be using it - I never have other than experimentally.

Barry.