How to apply thickness to a morph face

[Anonymous]

Hello,
I made a curved morph face (roof sheet), then how to give a thickness?
- If I copy a former morph down then subtract it, t is not an even thickness
- if by extruding, the segmented sub-faces, there will be confilcts because the extruded direction is different (not just vertical)

Regards

[Podolsky · Accepted solution]

This function does not exist in ArchiCAD. You need to use external 3D modeller. You can try Blender, as it's free of charge. The best way to exchange 3D data with Blender is DAE file format. It keeps textures and scale.

In Blender you can use modifier "Solidify".

[Laszlo Nagy]

I can imagine you could probably use the Archicad-Grasshopper Connection as well: take the Morph surface, use the "Deconstruct" Archicad Node in Grasshopper to get its geometry, give it thickness, make a solid body out of it, and then create a new Morph based on that using the Archicad Nodes in Grasshopper.

[Jeff Galbraith]

Is there any particular reason this function does not exist? It has always seemed like a missing feature frankly. I'm not interested in buying another software program and paying staff to figure out how to use it, and then dealing with updating imported geometry throughout design development...especially for something this basic.

[DGSketcher]

Jeff wrote:
Is there any particular reason this function does not exist? It has always seemed like a missing feature frankly. I'm not interested in buying another software program and paying staff to figure out how to use it, and then dealing with updating imported geometry throughout design development...especially for something this basic.

+1 There is Mesh to Roof in the Goodies, but that isn't a "supported" tool. Applying a thickness to a Morph Face and also having it as an option in the Mesh tool would be good. I assume the Mesh tool would probably do a better job of maintaining the thickness, whereas a Morph can be freely edited once created. Any chance of making this a wish?

[Hmooslechner]

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