topic Re: How to create a chamfered shape in Modeling

How to create a chamfered shape

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:50:09 GMT

Hello, I have some troubles creating this kind of form in ArchiCAD.. Is it posible?

Re: How to create a chamfered shape

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:19:07 GMT

No tools within ArchiCAD will create masses with rounded edges like that, but ArchiCAD itself can do it via GDL (e.g., the FPRISM_ command).

To avoid programming a GDL script, add-ons such as Cigraph's ArchiForma allow for easy, visual creation of such shapes. See:
http://www.cigraph.it/cigraph/pagetrans.do?action=current_product&prodotti_id=2&lang=en

(There was a free add-on which did this, but it is not available any longer.)

Cheers,
Karl

Re: How to create a chamfered shape

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:27:10 GMT

it's very hard, almost imposibile, but you can try with autocad inventor 2009, it very fast to do that. But arhicad do not support the files made by inventor.

Re: How to create a chamfered shape

adzik — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:10:56 GMT

Read the Archicad help files or search this forum for "Custom Profile". It requires some fiddling about but it gets the job done rather easily if You know what You're doing.

Re: How to create a chamfered shape

Ralph Wessel — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:55:46 GMT

WhiteMan wrote:
Hello, I have some troubles creating this kind of form in ArchiCAD.. Is it posible?

There are many ways to make this using OBJECTiVE. If you refer to the attached image, I made the main body of the form by drawing its cross-section with the fill tool and creating a new section profile object with the menu OBJECTiVE > Component > New Profile. The shaping at the ends can be done in many ways, but I simply made another section profile object for the edges and a lathed profile object for the corner. You can then use OBJECTiVE's tools to rotate and cut the form as required.