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Archiforma versus Encina Objective

Anonymous
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I bought Archicad Start Edition recently, and now I want to buy a 3d plugin. What plugin do you think is better?
The price is more o less equal.
Give me opinions please.
(Sorry for my english)
Many thanks.
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Anonymous
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Hi Necko
Great detailed review.
Certainly both are highly recommend here on the forum.

However I was interested in your experience with
what commands did you mean by:" but if objective get some new commands..".

Because of your independent view, what would your first 3 choices (in the order of priority for you) would you like to see added?
Maybe Ralph would take it to heart (if they are really needed) and finally get me to hop off the virtual fence.
Thanks
lec
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
It's just the same for us!

I mean we just started to develop the new major update of ArchiForma (ArchiForma 3) and now it's really the right time to post us your request/wish/suggestion.

You can directly contact me to my usual e-mail address.

Thanks to everybody will help us in improving this add-on.

Friendly
Fabrizio
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy
Anonymous
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Fabrizio wrote:
It's just the same for us!

I mean we just started to develop the new major update of ArchiForma (ArchiForma 3) and now it's really the right time to post us your request/wish/suggestion.

You can directly contact me to my usual e-mail address.

Thanks to everybody will help us in improving this add-on.

Friendly
Fabrizio
The "bend" tool like Objective is very useful!!!
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Already implemented!
😉
Fabrizio Diodati
Graphisoft Italy Srl | Via Rossignago 2/A Spinea Venezia 30038 Italy
Rakela Raul
Participant
for archiforma

1. no dongle .. like objective !!
2. cut object anytime and undo objects cuts at any time
3. twist command
4. etc
MACBKPro /32GiG / 240SSD
AC V6 to V18 - RVT V11 to V16
Anonymous
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Rakela wrote:
1. no dongle .. like objective !!
2. cut object anytime and undo objects cuts at any time
+1
I have a usb hub only for dongle!!! (archicad, tricalc, cype...)
Anonymous
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As i write before,archicad is limiting both addons and we can seee that archicad cant rotate objects without some addon, cant represent accurate section of rounded object, etc etc When GS team improve archicad in anyway we will felt it simultaneously in our modeling possibilitys. WE will become more efficient and we will not use workarounds.

missing commands that will speed up modeling tasks in it.
These commands are :
objective:
First off all i want to know when i take some profile (regular profile),
around what point will this object tilt and rotate. When i place regular profile on floor and i add tilt angle from menu i always get suprised by that what side of object will stay in place and what side will tilt. different color of spots or something like that would be good

When i use rounded object and i set faciting 0 i get too many spots (probably archicad fault)

When i strech object on floor sometimes object jump and change location
volumen and area of object /more info about object on screen,like little window in which we keep entering lenght,angle but with some info. I alys have to go to menu and change there parametars so some basic should be alysw on screen and changble on the fly ofc)
im missing extrude trough the path
Loft command
Sweep command
surface commands (ruled surface,gordon surface,translation
surface,coons surface,tappered section piping,multiple
section piping,simple section piping)
move,delete,add nodes
copy,edit, in sections
different materials of every side of every object - if i draw cube and i want different colors on every side . . . i cant get it in objective. This is possible in archiforma.

most of these commands allready exist in zoomgdl (old modeler) and if you could put any of these in your addons gentlaman that would be super !

some commands allready exist and some dont.
On pic is shown some line that is missing when object is bend in objective and there is no hotspots at the end of the rounded object (mybe ac fault






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Anonymous
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zoom gdl 2.1 commands / 2003 year /



with this commands and archicad i dont need nothing more
zoomgdl.jpg
Anonymous
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Hi Necko,

Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to use ZoomGDL. It seems that it had a lot of handy tools. Its really a pity it passed away.
Can you tell me if it could link a certain parameter with any geometry? Like grasshopper do?

BTW. Thanks for your insights on Objective X ArchiForma. Very useful.

Cheers,

Paulo
Anonymous
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Braza wrote:
Hi Necko,

Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to use ZoomGDL. It seems that it had a lot of handy tools. Its really a pity it passed away.
Can you tell me if it could link a certain parameter with any geometry? Like grasshopper do?

BTW. Thanks for your insights on Objective X ArchiForma. Very useful.

Cheers,

Paulo
if you know GDL then zoomgdl is right tool. COs you could draw there shapes and later in gdl you could easily create intelegence objects. You can put intelgence parametart in zoom gdl allready.
this is a pic of a box that i created in zoomgdl and then imported in ac 13. You see that cube was draw with block command.
i checked this program longtime before and i seee what can be draw with gdl. Than i can say that GS really dont want to improve ac.
Everything is possible to draw with this commands so now we ask people from Objective and Cigraph to help us. If they can use some of this it would be great.

GS team could done this years before and we woudnt have these problems now. I put blame on GS...they simply dont share our vision.