OBJECTiVE

[Ralph Wessel]

Encina Ltd is pleased to announce the release of OBJECTiVE, an add-on for making productive use of GDL objects.

The product web-page includes a series of illustrations and movie clips of OBJECTiVE in use. Point your browser to: http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html

The software can be downloaded from: http://www.encina.co.uk/software.html

Request a time-limited trial at: http://www.encina.co.uk/demo_request.html

Registration of OBJECTiVE is not tied to dongle serial numbers, and it can be licensed from a single user through to an entire site. The same license can be used for ArchiCAD 7 through to 9, and an update for ArchiCAD 10 will be free to all registered users. Purchasing is at: http://www.encina.co.uk/purchasing.html

[Ralph Wessel]

Don wrote:
There are the obvious uses as seen in the examples, but can you tell use how you use it on a daily basis?

Don,

It's difficult to pick from the number of times I use this. ArchiCAD users resort to all kinds of work-arounds to make these things happen, but once you have the right tools you wonder how you would manage without them.

I've taken a few snapshots from a project I'm working on now that illustrates some of this. The front entry had a number of details that I used to deal with by diving into GDL (see the attached image). With OBJECTiVE, it's a no-brainer, and I can just draw what I want. Draw the outline of the profiles, rotate them into place, split, and you're done.

I used the assembly tools for the details above the door (see the attached elevation). I started drawing it in the elevation window, but made an assembly and tilted it into a plan to use standard tools like Multiply (see the attached view). When I was finished, OBJECTiVE automatically transformed the assembly back into the model. This is great way to augment existing ArchiCAD objects which don't quite have the required detailing.

The freedom to cut and rotate in 3D allows you to make complex shapes very quickly and easily. For example, I cut the sides from a profile segment to make the corner in the attached image.

I also use the alignment tool all the time. You eventually get used to working in ArchiCAD without this, but anyone who's used in alignment tool in other CAD or drawing tools will know how valuable it is.

This is just a small sample - hope it helps.

Ralph.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Still waiting for MacTel version?
Thanks,
Joseph

[Ralph Wessel]

Joseph wrote:
Hi,
Still waiting for MacTel version?
Thanks,
Joseph

Hi Joseph,

We migrated everything to AC10 quite promptly, but the shift to MacTel hasn't been as simple - not for Graphisoft either. We expect to have this sorted next month.

[Anonymous]

Thanks,
And looking forwards to it. Hopefully ability to do curved objects will be included.
Thanks,
Joseph

[Anonymous]

All AC users:

If you have never been to the website you owe it to yourself to see the amazing things it can do so effortlessly.

A great tool with a great interface and Ralph is constantly upgrading the product.

Don Lee

[Anonymous]

Oh yeh, love this Objective

[Anonymous]

Here I am late to the party - OBJECTiVE looks like a very nice tool!

Question: what is the recommended way to communicate all these fancy twisty steel bits to a fabricator with a CNC machine?

Now in our office we have one architect communicating back and forth with fabricators by trading Rhino files (the lonely PC in an otherwise all-mac office).

Any opportunities for CNC-capable object exporting? Or more generally... what export options (other than direct object-export) to we ArchiCAD types have at present?

[Ralph Wessel]

leporello wrote:
Question: what is the recommended way to communicate all these fancy twisty steel bits to a fabricator with a CNC machine?
Any opportunities for CNC-capable object exporting? Or more generally... what export options (other than direct object-export) to we ArchiCAD types have at present?

There isn't a tool for direct export of these objects to CNC (yet). However, the prospects for this facility are good because the steel & timber objects are never 'dumbed down' no matter how they cut/rotated/bent. All the transformations applied to the base geometry are store as parameters in the objects, and could be codified for export to CNC. We are working on a similar process for cutting timber with FrameWright: http://www.encina.co.uk/framewright_pro.html

[jespizua]

Hello Ralph, Is there an objective´s educational license for students?

Thanks in advance.

[Ralph Wessel]

jespizua wrote:
Hello Ralph, Is there an objective´s educational license for students?

Yes, OBJECTiVE automatically works with the educational version of ArchiCAD without a registration code. Download from: http://www.encina.co.uk/sw-download.html