topic Re: How to make a frameless glass? in Modeling

How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:08:36 GMT

HI there,

I was unable to make frameless glass.

i am attaching a file which i have downloaded so that i can show what i want to achieve.

could any pl. suggest how this can be achieved

further to this image if the design is of exterior glass with web fittings and with wall in between.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Petros Ioannou — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:22:06 GMT

you can use the wall tool!
Make a very thin wall with a glass material applied and the appropriate fill and settings.

Petros

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:25:28 GMT

ya

i was also guessing so.

but will that be treated as glass or a wall in material or BOQs.

what about web fittings.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:45:03 GMT

HI,

there is glass curtain walls handy if you use the objects tool and look in one of the subfolders under the 1.4 folder. These can be used both with and without frames.

rajeshd wrote:
HI there,

I was unable to make frameless glass.

i am attaching a file which i have downloaded so that i can show what i want to achieve.

could any pl. suggest how this can be achieved

further to this image if the design is of exterior glass with web fittings and with wall in between.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:45:19 GMT

There is a door in the AC 9 library called D1 Entrance St that has various types of patch fittings which look similar to what you have shown.

I would just draw a wall 12 - 15mm thk with a glass texture applied. If you want joints in the glass then you can either draw individual sheets of glass or you could draw one wall and insert "Empty Hole" windows 10mm wide to appear like the joints.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:28:41 GMT

rajeshd wrote:
ya

but will that be treated as glass or a wall in material or BOQs.

what about web fittings.

Re the BoQs I would allocate it by layers and get it to Schedule it based on that.

Re spider fittings there is this object available at Objects Online Structural Glass Tool. I haven't seen anything similar going for free.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:20:09 GMT

fuzzytnth3 wrote:
Re spider fittings there is this object available at Objects Online Structural Glass Tool. I haven't seen anything similar going for free.

Actually I seem to remember seeing them somewhere for free, but can't seem to remember where - I think I may even have a copy somewhere. Haven't done those types of projects just yet, but you never know... ('course that'll mean I'll have to find the object then... )

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:53:52 GMT

If using walls as glass panels (and rendering in Lightworks) use Dwight's tip and assign a dark green high refraction glass material to the wall edges for that dark line at the corners and panel joints. See "Lightworks in ArchiCAD", page 159.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Electric Flute — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:35:36 GMT

Sergio wrote:
Actually I seem to remember seeing them somewhere for free, but can't seem to remember where - I think I may even have a copy somewhere.

Hi,

Maybe here?

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Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:09:05 GMT

Electric wrote:
Maybe here?

I KNEW I'd seen it before, and I thought I'd searched their site...

Anyway, that is the one I was talking about. Like I said, I've never used it but looks good.

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:35:08 GMT

Sergio wrote:
Electric wrote:
Maybe here?
I KNEW I'd seen it before, and I thought I'd searched their site...

Anyway, that is the one I was talking about. Like I said, I've never used it but looks good.

I used it in a project of mine, it works nicely, but all the paramters are in italian (unless they've changed it since then).

cheers,
Daniel

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Djordje — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:38:57 GMT

Daniel wrote:
I used it in a project of mine, it works nicely, but all the paramters are in italian (unless they've changed it since then).

Good reason for brushin up on your Italian ... 😉

Gosh ... have not been to Florence in 15 years ...

Re: How to make a frameless glass?

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:46:51 GMT

I believe using Storefront window from archicad library can achieve that