topic Re: Doing a fence/wire facade...is it possible in Modeling

Doing a fence/wire facade...is it possible

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:19:17 GMT

I am working on a project for my graduate studio that has a metal fencing with strips of metal woven thrown it at certain parts as part of the facade. I want to model it in ArchiCAD but I'm not sure how to. I am somewhat new to ArchiCAD so if anyone could give me a hint of how to do this, I would really appreciate it.
If you need a visual, I can post a picture of the actual model that I built.

Re: Doing a fence/wire facade...is it possible

Link — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:42:05 GMT

Just try doing a few searches mate!

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=31793&highlight=fence#31793

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Doing a fence/wire facade...is it possible

Scott Bulmer — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:55:23 GMT

From Objects Online we have used the 'Infill Screen' very successfully simulating chain link fencing. Goto http://www.objectsonline.com/customer/product.php?productid=115739&cat=718&page=4.
They have many other screening/fencing products listed under Archicad/Construction Elements/Fencing & Railings. Hope that's what you're looking for.
Ciao

Re: Doing a fence/wire facade...is it possible

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:41:15 GMT

In general, and IMHO, screens, wire fencing, etc. are best represented by an alpha-masked texture material with a corresponding fill that produces the desired linework in elevation ... unless you need to cut sections through the wire or lathe and have those sections look accurate at a high scale, or have extreme close-up views.

The image-applied-to-surface approach eliminates thousands of polygons that would otherwise slow down your model for no reason.

As Link says, this has been discussed as length over the years both here (search) and the old escribe archive (also searchable).

Good luck with your project.

Karl