topic Re: free-form shapes in Modeling

free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:10:14 GMT

i like to know if i could achieve these shapes in archicad or would it be better to do it one another program if so which on. i'm using a mac computer

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:11:01 GMT

another picture

Re: free-form shapes

Dwight — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:22:16 GMT

Each plane would be made using the complex profile tool :

Define each shape as a fill, then extrude sideways as a wall.

See this:Eric Bobrow's great article

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:28:24 GMT

thanks a lot

Re: free-form shapes

TMA_80 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:58:54 GMT

hi
you could also try to use slab and save the result as an (rotated) object .

if you are a sketchup user there is a ruby script that seems let you do what you want easily ( slicer 3 )
http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?9467-Visual-Index-of-Ruby-Scripts/page3

(i' haven't test it yet )

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:11:06 GMT

wow ruby scripts are amazing thanks as well

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:25:55 GMT

is it relatively easy to import and export from archicad to sketch up.for instance if i draw the pans in archicad can i make the 3d model in sketch up

Re: free-form shapes

TMA_80 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:47:17 GMT

As far as i know it is more "easy" to import from sketchup than to export . if you have a small model i think it will not be a problem as there will be less cleaning work to do .

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:50:24 GMT

thanks

Re: free-form shapes

Erich — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:28:52 GMT

Alvin wrote:
i'm using a mac computer

Of course this is much harder to do with a mac. The sketch up import is currently functional for Windows only. If you have Bootcamp running then you can import on the Window side and copy your new objects to the Mac side.

Re: free-form shapes

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:32:17 GMT

i dont have bootcamp but i have access to my uni computer so it should be ok