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How to create walls with lower half rick veneer?

4hotshoes
Advisor
I have a house with full height brick veneer and walls where the brick extends up only 36" with a stone cap and the rest of the wall has siding above. Then I have a window that cuts into both the brick and the siding. What is a good way to create and manage that? What options are there for creating the wall with a window?

Thanks,

Todd
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Karl Ottenstein
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All pretty easy to do using complex profiles. If you haven't used profiles before, this video may be a good introduction, even though it is for a commercial project:

https://youtu.be/2gCY7vODRjU

See also:
https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-21/archicad-21-reference-guide/user-interface-refe...
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Dontknow
Enthusiast
I've got this video of a composite wall made in the profile manager, with on the outside two different materials.
Architectural construction designer, draftsman, modeller
ArchiCAD 25.
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
Dontknow wrote:
I've got this video of a composite wall made in the profile manager, with on the outside two different materials.
Can you post the video in a universal video format? WMV files are pretty much only Windows ... or require an obsolete 3rd party add-on for Macs. (Original poster is on a Mac.)
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Dontknow
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Karl wrote:
Can you post the video in a universal video format? WMV files are pretty much only Windows ... or require an obsolete 3rd party add-on for Macs. (Original poster is on a Mac.)
MP4?
Architectural construction designer, draftsman, modeller
ArchiCAD 25.
4hotshoes wrote:
I have a house with full height brick veneer and walls where the brick extends up only 36" with a stone cap and the rest of the wall has siding above. Then I have a window that cuts into both the brick and the siding. What is a good way to create and manage that? What options are there for creating the wall with a window?

Thanks,

Todd
Model the wainscot and stone cap as seperate walls. Make the one under the window shorter or perhaps use an empty opening in that wall where you have the window in the other wall.
Something like this?

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