topic Re: Morphing... in Modeling

Morphing...

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:31:04 GMT

I'm teaching a workshop of Archicad this days and many of the asks of the students now finish with ... "Well, you can do with morph" I'm working with Archicad since v11 and morph its the best tool since I work with archi...
I have made some tries with the tools and I think that the posibilities of morph are only limited by our imagination...
(All the are pics above have been modelled in Archicad with morph, no more programs)

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Re: Morphing...

Jere — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:39:00 GMT

My humble contribution:
A simple welded strut for a canopy structure.

Re: Morphing...

Gorazd — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:07:10 GMT

My try. The Rex chair collection (http://rex-kralj.si/en/) modeled with morph tool.

Re: Morphing...

Gorazd — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:08:16 GMT

With quick Artlantis render of all 5 pieces.

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:13:23 GMT

Very good, Gorazd!!!

Re: Morphing...

Gorazd — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:02:12 GMT

Thank you. Theese foldable chairs are iconic in Slovenia and are sold throughout Europe since sixties. Modeling them was my way to learn the morph tool, each piece I made took me less time.

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:10:09 GMT

Gorazd wrote:
Thank you. Theese foldable chairs are iconic in Slovenia and are sold throughout Europe since sixties. Modeling them was my way to learn the morph tool, each piece I made took me less time.

I'm in the same sitution... I modelled all this things to practice with morph, and each piece took me less time too. If you know how to modell with c4d, morph is very easy, limited of course but very easy.

Re: Morphing...

david nicholson-cole — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:33:14 GMT

Jose wrote:
Gorazd wrote:
Thank you. Theese foldable chairs are iconic in Slovenia and are sold throughout Europe since sixties. Modeling them was my way to learn the morph tool, each piece I made took me less time.
I'm in the same sitution... I modelled all this things to practice with morph, and each piece took me less time too. If you know how to modell with c4d, morph is very easy, limited of course but very easy.

I am new to Morph and still finding it virtually unusable. My biggest problem is how to RELEASE the mouse from making something. Every attempt to do so results in the object getting larger and larger and larger. does one hit ESC, does one hit Enter, does one double click, or does one right-click and select OK? None of these seem to work.
The most valuable key combination is Ctrl-Z, because even if you have made an effort to form a shape, you think its done, move the mouse away and suddenly the object goes crazy.

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:42:20 GMT

david wrote:
I am new to Morph and still finding it virtually unusable. My biggest problem is how to RELEASE the mouse from making something. Every attempt to do so results in the object getting larger and larger and larger. does one hit ESC, does one hit Enter, does one double click, or does one right-click and select OK? None of these seem to work.
The most valuable key combination is Ctrl-Z, because even if you have made an effort to form a shape, you think its done, move the mouse away and suddenly the object goes crazy.

Its very tricky at first but with some practice you can do almost anything. If you need more precision you can deactivate the "3d sensitive cursor" in the process and when you finish activate again....

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:21:51 GMT

Jose wrote:
..... If you need more precision you can deactivate the "3d sensitive cursor" in the process and when you finish activate again....

I looked around a bit, help etc, could not find "3d sensitive cursor", a hint maybe?
Thanks

Re: Morphing...

JaredBanks — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:39:50 GMT

I wanted to get this topic restarted. Here's the most recent thing I used the Morph Tool for. The opposite of flashy. But wow was that fast, easy, and something that would have been such a pain to do before the Morph Tool.

I've got a crazy stair coming up on this project, and I expect that'll be using a bunch of Morphs as well.

Re: Morphing...

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:09:43 GMT

Hi Jared,

The Morph gives you the routed corners that you want easily ... but the element is no longer a column, and so AFAIK you can no longer schedule its height (length for ordering)... and the only way to change the height for all such columns is now a non-parametric editing of each, one by one, right?

I think the Morph is great for entourage - but there is nothing BIM about it when it is used for actual building elements, unfortunately. In your example, the morph could be tagged as an IFC column and perhaps (?) still export in a way that is useful in other software ... but one can also imagine Morphs creating combined elements that have no single IFC equivalent ... in which case the result is not only not schedule-able within AC, but is also not usable in other software that opens an IFC and sees only a mass with no structural characteristics. (?)

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Morphing...

JaredBanks — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:36:08 GMT

Karl,

Yes to all of that. For this project, I just need dumb and pretty, so the Morph's lack of intelligence is okay.

BUT... if these Morphs were saved as objects then they could be easily scheduled with some of the default Object parameters (height, width, length). And I presume if we know what we're doing we could open the object, edit/add parameters, and get those to show up in an interactive schedule. I have enough knowledge to know how to add the parameters, but not to know about scheduling new ones. I assume if we match to existing, it should be super easy?

Of course (again this is out of my comfort zone) I don't know what the morph to object to IFC would result in.

If it needed to stay a column, this morph could be used as a subtraction SEO to a column. That'd at least be less operations than 4 cuts... though that is not a work around that I'm particularly in love with!

Re: Morphing...

Rakela Raul — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:43:33 GMT

maybe an addon that make elements like these, smarter and schedule-able

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:27:10 GMT

You can also produce a column with total control over the chamfers (and a lot more) with the rectilinear tool within Objective.
Although I'm not sure if it will schedule as I've used Objective mostly (so far) for bendable trim.
Maybe Ralph could chime in here?

Re: Morphing...

Nando Mogollon — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:23:02 GMT

I think the next step for AC 17 or 18 will be to combine the quick modeling power of Morphs with Parametric GDL variables, some sort of parametric dimensions or "Constraints" (by now I guess you all know what that is).

But over all I think morphing brought the fun back to ArchiCAD, don't you think?

Re: Morphing...

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:09:12 GMT

lec1212 wrote:
You can also produce a column with total control over the chamfers (and a lot more) with the rectilinear tool within Objective.
Although I'm not sure if it will schedule as I've used Objective mostly (so far) for bendable trim.
Maybe Ralph could chime in here?

Yes, OBJECTiVE is designed to retain all measurable characteristics for scheduling purposes no matter what operations are applied to objects. The attached image shows the timber with chamfers rotated through a 90 degree sweep and scheduled - the timber retains the correct sense of length, width, depth irrespective of rotation etc.

Re: Morphing...

JaredBanks — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:19:05 GMT

Very cool! Can the cut be filleted instead of chamfered?

Re: Morphing...

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:24:15 GMT

JaredBanks wrote:
Very cool! Can the cut be filleted instead of chamfered?

I don't believe so, but maybe someone else knows differently.
Maybe this one of the places the Morph would shine?
Although; I don't believe I have that much control with the Morph tool.

Re: Morphing...

JaredBanks — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:32:40 GMT

We'll get you that much control!