topic Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh... in Modeling

Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:12:18 GMT

Hello everybody
I am new with ArchiCAD and am drawing a landscape with roads and buildings, I am trying to add roads on mesh, I did some search about how to do it, but still could not get till the end, my landscape is complicated and to add roads I used fill and then edited it in photoshop and I could not put it back in archiCAD and place on mesh.
pleas help, how can I do it? maybe there is other way to do it...
Thank you for your time

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Djordje — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:04:05 GMT

Try ArchiTerra.

Search in Archicad Wiki, the whole procedure should be there.

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Thomas Holm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:17:32 GMT

I wouldn't recommend starting with Architerra at the first try. It's a specialized third-party add-on which you might need or not.

A simpler way might be to try this tip: http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2006/issue10-archicad.html
At the end of this article on SEOs, there is a brilliant tip describing a simple way to add a road to a mesh with very little effort - no 3D node editing!

It's in AECByte´s Tips and Tricks section, which I recommend to check out now and then. I don't know if this tip is in the WIKI too, and I also don't remember how I found it - it might be from someone in this forum. However. really worthwhile reading!

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:34:05 GMT

Thank you for your reply
I tried to add roads on mesh with SEOs, but when I do it I get message "there are no Valid Target or operator elements stored! "

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Thomas Holm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:24:11 GMT

Check the Archicad Help files for how to use the SEO. Do every step, each in turn. You have to select something and then click the Get Target button, then select something else and then the Get Operator button etc. etc.

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:22:38 GMT

Thomas wrote:
Check the Archicad Help files for how to use the SEO. Do every step, each in turn. You have to select something and then click the Get Target button, then select something else and then the Get Operator button etc. etc.

I did it that way, but still it does not work when I try to add roads on mesh, but its ok.
thank you

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:43:33 GMT

One thing that is not clear in the help files about SEO
is that after selecting something and designating it as the target
you must de-select it before selecting something else
and designating it as the operator and you must
de-select it before executing the SEO.
Peter Devlin

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

David Maudlin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:08:43 GMT

Peter wrote:
... and you must de-select it before executing the SEO.

Peter:

I have found that I do not need to de-select the last selected element(s) before hitting the "Execute" button for the SEO to work.

HTH

David

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:41:42 GMT

Hello David,
Yes, I have found this to be true also.
I just wanted to be consistent to make the point.
Peter Devlin

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Andy Thomson — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:54:53 GMT

We posted this here also:

http://www.archicad.ca/?p=12

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

vfrontiers — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:54:12 GMT

Inspired by this thread, I've done the following upgrade to the processes described below... Check out the jpeg for all the info.

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

vfrontiers — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:19:31 GMT

Along those same lines, you could use a WALL as Property Lines [in place of the Slab as a Road in the previous scenario] and show propertly lines that hug the terrain as well.

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:38:39 GMT

Along those same lines, you could use a WALL as Property Lines [in place of the Slab as a Road in the previous scenario] and show propertly lines that hug the terrain as well.

Here's a residential site example with yellow lot lines. SEO'd( lot lines 4" wide "walls")( 2' "wall" curbs) (slab road) & Googled mapped material to mesh. Really works well to help clients visualise site issues.

Dave

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:01:22 GMT

Thank you all

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:18:48 GMT

it's working. but what if i have to place a road with a small heigth towards the mesh level.. how to do this ?

Re: Problems with placing roads on mesh...

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:55:32 GMT

This had to go down as the best thing I've learn form this site - thanks a million guys