predesign with archicad 11

[Anonymous]

has anyone used archicad 11 to do predesign feasibility studies to compare 1story structures with 2 story structures. i am looking for the procedure or strategy... i.e. slabs, walls, massing, zone tool - where to start, etc.

thanks

[Rakela Raul]

zones. with coloured glass materials (to match their category colour if you feel so inclined! )

looks fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!

[__archiben]

Mats_Knutsson wrote:
Very sweet materials indeed. Would you like to share the settings?

no great mystery - it's just the bog standard 'Glass - White' material with it's transmittance dialled down to 40% . . . then duplicated for as many different surface colours you want.

view in AC11 with the openGL window . . .

~/archiben

[owen]

~/archiben wrote:
view in AC11 with the openGL window . . .

ahh .. i haven't worked with 11 much yet, forgot about the 'new' transparency in AC11's OpenGL

[__archiben]

owen wrote:
... forgot about the new transparency 'feature' in OpenGL

probably the best feature of AC11 . . . and they forgot to tell people about it.

that project is the only one i've got in 11. it's the only archicad i've not wanted to upgrade to.

~/archiben

[Dwight]

~/archiben wrote:

owen wrote:
... forgot about the new transparency 'feature' in OpenGL

probably the best feature of AC11 . . . and they forgot to tell people about it.

Probably from the shame of being so far behind.
"If we don't say anything, maybe they will think it has been there for years…"

Let's get them casting shadows, next.

[Mats_Knutsson]

~/archiben wrote:

Mats_Knutsson wrote:
Very sweet materials indeed. Would you like to share the settings?

no great mystery - it's just the bog standard 'Glass - White' material with it's transmittance dialled down to 40% . . . then duplicated for as many different surface colours you want.

view in AC11 with the openGL window . . .

~/archiben

Thanksalot Ben...11 did it...we're releasing 11 in Sweden in a couple of days so I guess I need to learn the new stuff, documented as well as undocumented.
This zone transparency thing will go directly to the useful-things list!
Mats