topic Re: Hatching in Modeling

Hatching

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:14:57 GMT

There is a great feature in revit that allows you to add hatching to your walls etc in the materials dialogue that will show in elevation. In ArchiCAD, if I want to do the same I have to draw a fill patten manually over the wall in elevation to show brick lines etc. If I move a window, I have to go and manually change the fill.

Is there an easier way to do this?

Re: Hatching

__archiben — Thu, 19 May 2005 09:50:08 GMT

Andydob wrote:
Is there an easier way to do this?

yes! assign your fill (hatch) to the material - just like revit - when you create your sections/elevations be sure to to turn on the vectorial shading found under the 'model effects' of the sect/elev line tool settings . . .

same same, i guess!

~/archiben

Re: Hatching

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:16:45 GMT

I have been using ArchiCAD for 5 years and didn't know that one, is it a recent new feature?

Thanks for the speedy response

Re: Hatching

TomWaltz — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:53:50 GMT

Archicad has this great feature that allows you to look obvious questions up in a book or online searchable help. You should try using it some time. It's really nice!!

Like the material hatches on modeled objects, that feature has been there for quite a long time.

Re: Hatching

James Murray — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:19:03 GMT

Andydob wrote:
is it a recent new feature?

AC6.

Without singling anyone out, may I politely suggest to everyone who has never taken training, and who doesn't have a guru in their office, to find a way to take a day of one-on-one or one-on-a-few instruction, at whatever cost. Without it, it's the old problem of you don't know what you don't know.

I despair to hear of users doing easy things the hard way for so long.

Re: Hatching

TomWaltz — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:44:02 GMT

Without singling anyone out, may I politely suggest to everyone who has never taken training, and who doesn't have a guru in their office, to find a way to take a day of one-on-one or one-on-a-few instruction, at whatever cost. Without it, it's the old problem of you don't know what you don't know.

I despair to hear of users doing easy things the hard way for so long.

It especially bugs me when they use it as a complaint about Archicad.

Re: Hatching

Anonymous — Thu, 19 May 2005 13:10:14 GMT

Ok, no need to be nasty about it!

I did a beginners course on ArchiCAD 6 at university and taught myself the later versions. Architectural students dont have money to pay for training (in fact I was one of the only students to have a licensed student copy of ArchiCAD that cost enough when you are poor!) I have done some pretty complicated things in ArchiCAD - I think I am pretty damned good with it too.

I'm not complaining, just asking if there is a way to do something that seems easy in Revit. It seems that there is an easy way in ArchiCAD too.

I havent used ArchiCAD for a year since I left university, and have to use AutoCAD at work and am looking at Revit as I want to introduce my company to BIM products. There is no way they would be interested in ArchiCAD as there is no upgrade path from AutoCAD.

Re: Hatching

Rakela Raul — Thu, 19 May 2005 14:32:02 GMT

all companies, bentley, graphisoft and the like, have 'competition upgrades'....if you have their competition software they will give you a good break.......furthermore, if you dont like archicad, you can always re-sale it with license with a transfer fee and you wont waste much money,,,,unlike others

Re: Hatching

Rick Thompson — Thu, 19 May 2005 19:08:00 GMT

Mr. wizard (archiben)... the issue I have had with that is with a surface fill you can set the orientation, but when working off the material assigned to a wall you can't make it corse out right. So, if you are working with something like concrete block it's a problem. Yesterday I was trying to figure out how many block to order and ended up placing the fill manually so the block actually started on top of the footing. It would be nice to be able to manipulate that. If you know a trick here I would appreciate knowing it.

thanks

ps.. as in the attached drawing

Re: Hatching

__archiben — Thu, 19 May 2005 22:53:31 GMT

Rick wrote:
It would be nice to be able to manipulate that. If you know a trick here I would appreciate knowing it.

rick

using the 'Align Texture' tools (Edit>Align Texture) sets the origin and direction for the internal engine vectorial hatching as well as the openGL textures . . .

HTH
~/archiWIZARD

Re: Hatching

Djordje — Fri, 20 May 2005 04:59:02 GMT

Andy,

Andydob wrote:
I havent used ArchiCAD for a year since I left university, and have to use AutoCAD at work and am looking at Revit as I want to introduce my company to BIM products. There is no way they would be interested in ArchiCAD as there is no upgrade path from AutoCAD.

As with the 3D hatching, it seems you did not do your homework. Not being nasty, just stating a fact.

There very much IS an upgrade path from anything to ArchiCAD. Talk to your local reseller or GS UK. If your company has quite a few seats, I do think they will come running. And, it is definitely not going to be more expensive than Revit, unless they give it away.

Plus, you don't have the subscription stranglehold on you if you don't want it. You can upgrade when you want, or not upgrade at all (not a smart option ...) and as someone else said, sell your licenses to someone at any time.

So, in the ROI field, the decision to go Revit or ArchiCAD is very much on the side of ArchiCAD, as re-training and implementation are the same - going from flatland to VB or BIM is the same road, whichever you choose.

Not knowing it is out there does not mean it is not out there.

Re: Hatching

Rick Thompson — Fri, 20 May 2005 16:13:52 GMT

~/archiWIZARD ... I just knew you would know something:) thanks

(and yes, I had no real training)... and furthermore know how much I could learn from just re-studing the manual and tutorials again after over 10 years. It's so easy working away getting your work done and not taking the time to fully explore options until you find you don't know how to do something.

Re: Hatching

Stress Co_ — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:35:50 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
Rick wrote:
It would be nice to be able to manipulate that. If you know a trick here I would appreciate knowing it.
rick

using the 'Align Texture' tools (Edit>Align Texture) sets the origin and direction for the internal engine vectorial hatching as well as the openGL textures . . .

HTH
~/archiWIZARD

Too bad it doesn't work in elevation windows It should.