topic Re: Curved glass block wall in Modeling

Curved glass block wall

Marky — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:07:39 GMT

Does anybody know how to build this type of wall?
Neither Cadimage Wall Coverings nor ArchiWall is able to do it.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:14:54 GMT

Hi Marky,
if you check in the windows library, you should find in the "fixed windows" folder a "ww glass block wall" window. Its settings are a bit quirky but after a few tries you should get the settings you need, have a look at the image attached

Re: Curved glass block wall

Marky — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:02:14 GMT

Hi Til,

Thanks, I know that but I need to insert there some doors and that's the problem.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:46:48 GMT

Marky,
make a new material, set the right texture (glass blocks), and assign it to the wall.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Marky — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:01:23 GMT

Hi Andro,

That's it!
I was thinking about it.
Have to check if it has a thickness and what happens to the other side but looks very promising.

Anyway, that's the solution!

Thanks.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:04:18 GMT

And some textures for the glass blocks for download:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/kdcnoc7xcxz3iri/Glass%20Blocks.zip

Re: Curved glass block wall

Marky — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:13:38 GMT

Wow, this forum is the source of abundance! At least for ArchiCAD users.

Thanks a lot Andro!

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:24:53 GMT

How to you distribute the glass brick along the wall, bcz only allows to me to make windows with a certain length.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Erwin Edel — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:20:42 GMT

You could try doing this as a Curtain Wall. Hidden frames for the mortar joints, panels for the glass blocks and a curved wall as mortar (SEO out the glass blocks Curtain Wall).

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:05:27 GMT

I read about drawing like a curtain wall. But apparently in the second post on this thread it can be possible to draw like window brick glass. Can anyone confirm this and if so how can I make a curved window.

Regards

Re: Curved glass block wall

Barry Kelly — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:52:22 GMT

There is a "Glass Block Wall" window object in the standard GS library.
But I don't think it is all that good.
You can't set the block size and number and mortar width and have it automatically set the overall size.
You have to set the overall size, nominate how many blocks, then you can choose to set the block size and it will set the gap (mortar) or you can set the gap size and it will set the block size.
It also does not tell you what the adjusted (gap or block) size is.

It does sit in a curved wall though.

Barry.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:50:44 GMT

Well is not bad, for circles is working properly, but for a custom wall made of a polyline built with different radios, there is some problems.
The window brick glass tool work properly in each radio separately, but not in the whole polyline, bcz between radios it is left a piece of the wall and cut the bricks not join the brick from different radios properly.
Is there a way to fix this?

Re: Curved glass block wall

Barry Kelly — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 07:40:24 GMT

The polyline wall will be made from individual curved segments - one for each different radius as you have discovered.
The glass block window can only belong to one wall and it can only have one radius.
So the best you will get is to butt each glass block window up to each other.
Not a very good solution.

The best as shown before would be to create a glass block surface and apply that to the wall.
The image shown here is with tiles (as I don't have a glass block surface material created).
There are glass block materials in the standard surface catalogue.
Otherwise create a stack of glass blocks (one block wide) from walls, beams, slabs, morrphs.
You may want to experiment with the tool you use.
Then distribute copies of this stack along your polyline.
If you use a beam for the block and model it so the length is the thickness of the block (i.e. perpendicular to the wall), then if the building material is stronger than the wall, it will automatically cut it.
So you could create a wall of 'mortar' (a little thinner thickness than your blocks and then place the beam (block) into it (at perpendicular angle).
You will need to play with the position a but as the block will need to sit a little in front of the wall.
This is just a very quick attenmpt - not perfect but with some trial and error you should be able to find a solution.
Barry.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:02:03 GMT

Thank you Barry, as a former user of auto cad I am not happy using surfaces, obiouvsly you can't extract plans from them so I prefer using the beams. Lets give a try.
Thanks again

Re: Curved glass block wall

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:02:04 GMT

It was perfect with the beam.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Barry Kelly — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:07:56 GMT

darwinland wrote:
It was perfect with the beam.

Excellent.

When in doubt, model it from basic elements.
Even if it is the long way of doing it.
At least you should get the results you want.

Barry.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Erwin Edel — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:31:03 GMT

To make the beam approach a bit quicker, you could make a complex profile for a whole row, meaning you only have to rotate copies of one whole row.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Barry Kelly — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:55:38 GMT

Erwin wrote:
To make the beam approach a bit quicker, you could make a complex profile for a whole row, meaning you only have to rotate copies of one whole row.

I think Erwin means make a complex profile for a whole column instead of row.

Barry.

Re: Curved glass block wall

Erwin Edel — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:05:21 GMT

Yes, apparantly my english definition is off. Vertical stack!