topic Thatch roof construction in Modeling

Thatch roof construction

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:58:52 GMT

Hi Guys!!!

I hope that all of you are having a fabulous new year with lots and lots of great buildings to design on ArchiCAD!!!

However for now i need some of your intellegent ideas with my Thatch roof construction!!! See Pic attached. I need to make it a bit more curvy in the joints. i have been using the wall, roof, mesh and tent object, but can't seem to get what i need.

Any ideas???? Preferably i do not want to take it to an external app. to do the construction.

Looking forward to reading your ideas.

Re: Thatch roof construction

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:27:22 GMT

You could add profiled walls at the ridge the get the curve there, but it might be better to just use the mesh tool for the whole thing. Once you get the top surface of the mesh to what you want, offset a copy downward by the thickness of the thatch and subtract the copy form the original. (The copy then needs to be put on a hidden layer.)

Re: Thatch roof construction

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:28:38 GMT

Hi Cecilia,

You could try Mesh3d V2. You can see how it works here.