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Hi everyone,
I'm an architect from Romania and I've been building a small add-on for a problem I kept running into: checking vehicle swept paths — fire-engine access, roundabouts, parking manoeuvres, garage ramps — without leaving Archicad.
WHAT IT DOES
- Swept Path (from Selected Polyline) — draw the intended path as a polyline, select it, pick a vehicle. You get the swept envelope, the driven path and the vehicle at start/end, plus a report: FEASIBLE / NOT FEASIBLE, minimum radius vs required, area, margins. If a corner physically doesn't fit, it refuses and tells you which vertex and how many metres are missing — it never draws a lie.
- Drive with Mouse — drive the vehicle through the plan with the mouse; what you see while driving is exactly the final drawing.
- Vehicles: car, van, rigid truck, city bus, and a semi-trailer truck with a live articulated trailer (jackknife detection included).
- Everything lands as ordinary Archicad elements, grouped — one Undo removes it.
HONEST CAVEATS — it's a closed beta: Archicad 29 / Windows only; vehicle dimensions are indicative presets (custom dimensions are the obvious next step); forward driving only; a KNOWN_LIMITATIONS document ships in the package with measured figures.
WHAT I'M ASKING: try it on a real case of yours and tell me — bluntly — whether it's worth investing more time in. Short questionnaire (10 questions, 5 min): https://forms.gle/yeEtTy4Roe7Y9TJp8 (the form is in Romanian — your browser's translate handles it, and answers in English are perfectly welcome) — or just reply here. Screenshots of anything wrong (the drawn line + the chosen vehicle) are the most useful thing you can send.
DOWNLOAD (zip: .apx + install guide + docs): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bYL0_C88jD6-DZrYK0E9DG2pMv3DyuqZ?usp=sharing
INSTALL: copy ArchiTurn.apx into C:\Program Files\GRAPHISOFT\Archicad 29\Add-Ons\ and restart Archicad — the ArchiTurn menu appears.
Thanks — happy to answer any technical questions about the engine here.
Operating system used: Windows win11
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