topic Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture in Modeling

Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:29:56 GMT

Excuse me can anyone help me to get this kind of hatch on elevation , as well as on 3D view.

I would like to have poured reinforced concrete, just like tadao ando's project as attached, exactly like this effect. (I now can have concrete but just showed in grey colour without holes on it)

waiting your reply online, hope a solution in detail.

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Barry Kelly — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 06:29:54 GMT

I have renamed your post from "Emergency" to something a little more meaningful just in case people in future want to search for a similar subject.

For the hatch you will need to creat a 'symbol fill'.
Draw the pattern with lines (not sure if you can use a circle so you may need to create the circles from say 32 line segments (magic wand settings)) and then copy.
Create a new symbol fill and paste in the lines.
There will be more info in the help file.

For the texture you can find these on-line or if you have a nice square image you could crop it from that or even take your own photo of similar concrete.
Once you have the image you want add it to a loaded Archicad library or embed it in the PLN through Library manager.
Then attach it to a material in the material settings (surfaces in 17).

Barry.

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Barry Kelly — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 06:46:18 GMT

It only took me a couple of minutes to search for 'concrete texture' on the internet and i got this texture.
I am sure there are others and probably better ones too.

Yes you can use circles in the copy & paste to create a symbol fill.

Here is the results - I didn't make the fill pattern match the texture exactly but it wouldn't be hard to do so.

Barry.

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:06:20 GMT

Dear Barry:

Thanks for your kind replay, but I still cannot follow your step.....

For the hatch, you mean to say I need to draw to hatch in elevation myself in 2D in lines? (and what do you mean by 32 line segments?)

For the texture, how do you attach it to a material?

best,
richard

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

David Maudlin — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:30:26 GMT

imxxx wrote:
For the hatch, you mean to say I need to draw to hatch in elevation myself in 2D in lines? (and what do you mean by 32 line segments?)

To create a custom fill (hatch) see in the Help files:
Documentation > Fills > Create or Edit Symbol Fill
then attach the Fill to the Surface in the Surface Settings dialog box.

imxxx wrote:
For the texture, how do you attach it to a material?

Open the Surface Settings, and go to the Textures panel, in the Help files see:
User Interface Reference > Dialog Boxes > Surface Settings Dialog Box > Surface Texture Panel

David

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:52:58 GMT

Dear David and Barry:

I now can attach the material.

but for the hatch, I really cannot find it or how to create a custom fill, can you please help more, step by step?

best regards,

richard

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:31:09 GMT

anybody help please, thanks!!

Re: Help needed to create new hatch pattern/texture

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:59:43 GMT

Does this help?:

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-17-int-reference-guide/documentation/fills/create-or-edit-symbol-fill/