HEELP!! custom curved ramp

[Anonymous]

has anyone ever created a custom curved ramp in the history of archicad?? it would be the achievement of the century if i could do it just once for an important project i'm working on.

i know archicad has a curved ramp tool but it only lets you follow a circular path not a custom one.

of course you can create a custom curved path as i have done using spline and then slab or mesh tool but this is not a ramp until one end is higher than the other.

I basically want this ramp to go from say 0 - 6 metres high at a uniform gradient.

i have tried objective (much of my hair was pulled out trying to get it to do what i wanted) but my conclusion is that the 'regular profile' does not, will not and never has any intention of following a 'defined' path you give it... only the path that regular profile wants to follow.

i could raise every randomly spaced mesh point individually calculating how high to raise each point each time... this would take 78,000 light years and i have only 2 days to figure it out.

any help is greatly greatly appreciated!!

[Anonymous]

i will try some of these approaches. thanks for your help!

[Rakela Raul]

Attached find a complex interchange built using the geometry from engineers (vertical, horizontal & cross-slope).
Only using Objective !! and of course with the huge help from Encina providing us with an unreleased version of Objective.

[Anonymous]

cartann wrote:
...
Rampes Courbes in the Accueil site, that helped me with ramps.
Simple but effective.

The Accueil site is the personal page of Olivier Dentan. It is an eye opener, awesome GDL work, the ramp and other curved, spiral, and otherwise wiggly objects.

Snap

[Anonymous]

I could not agree more.
The chaines and the talus objects , in my opinion
are amazing!

[Anonymous]

Snap wrote:
"The Accueil site is the personal page of Olivier Dentan. It is an eye opener, awesome GDL work, the ramp and other curved, spiral, and otherwise wiggly objects. "

Somehow I cannot decompress this library parts. I get the message:
The winzip wizard cannot open this file. it doers not appear to be a valid archive."
I tried 7zip it does not work either. Is this a mac thing? Im on windows

[adzik]

No, it's not a Mac thing.

Everything I've gotten from there unpacked nicely. Try using WinRAR or downloading again/from another computer.

[Anonymous]

oh, this I cannot say. I only use macs.
Is there such a difference? Objects for mac only?
I use the doubleclick method and voilá. No problem.
But some of the stuff are not zipped. Could it be
that you got one that is not zipped?

PS: Thanks for the answer Adzik

[Anonymous]

Here's mine RAMP: I used Olivier's object "Ramp Ellipse.gsm".

[Anonymous]

And 3D View

[Anonymous]

"Everything I've gotten from there unpacked nicely. Try using WinRAR or downloading again/from another computer."

I tried using winrar but still no success..... Thanks anyway.
Winrar & winzip decompresses the file to something.lib. But it is unrecognizable to archicad 12.
I have noticed that all library parts have *.gsm as a file extension name but this is not the case with oliver library parts. Do any of you get the *.gsm extention when you decompress the files from this site?