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Driveway creation in Archicad

Josh Verran
Advisor

I've been playing around with Rhino - Grasshopper Live Connection and been able to generate morphs which follow the topography of the site.

A colleague looked over my shoulder and made two comments which resonated quite well.

Said wow that functions really well and we'll use it often.

Then said how come it's that complicated to create a sloped driveway in Archicad.

Kind of a valid point, as cool as it is to play around with grasshopper, why does it take that level of knowledge to have a paved surface (or any other surface for that matter) follow the mesh.

Now there's options like copy the original mesh, raise it up, cut it etc. But any one that's worked with even small scale roadways etc knows how messy (and sluggish) this gets.

Anyway, not really a question, more an observation and be interested to hear other users views on the subject.

 

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I suppose, but the beam tool offers better floorplan display options and you could connect different beams together.

Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
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Hmooslechner
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Maybe this could also bi interesting for You - read the comments for finding the downloadplace: 

 

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