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Load-bearing masonry solution

Electric Flute
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Is there any parametric object or add-on for ArchiCAD that makes load-bearing masonry? It is great to estimate quantities. There are many for Revit, but I didn't find anything for ArchiCAD so far.
Thanks,
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Electric Flute
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ejrolon wrote:
The mortar joints are frames in CW.
I see, thank you for your help.
But too much hassle. Not worth it.
AC26 > AC5 - Win10
Eduardo Rolon
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Curious as to why it is a hassle?
- CW is part of AC so no extra cost
- It only took me less than a minute to place the door and edit the CMUs
- Once the first Scheme is done then you can save it as a Favorite
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Is it that the other plugins automatically create and select the CMUs once you place an opening?
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I liked ContraBIM's video because I learned more about pattern editing with blocks as the example than I ever did from a Graphisoft video. I've got a complex tower facade (actually 2) that I will finally get to apply some of what I learned. Looking forward.
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Eduardo Rolon
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On another note the original screenshot from RVT indicates that the wall is a Curtain Wall too.
So now I am more confused as to why using the CW tool in AC is too much hassle.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
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Eduardo Rolon
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Aaron wrote:
I liked ContraBIM's video because I learned more about pattern editing with blocks as the example than I ever did from a Graphisoft video. I've got a complex tower facade (actually 2) that I will finally get to apply some of what I learned. Looking forward.
You should have seen Laszlo's presentation during ARCHINTENSIVE 2021
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
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Macbook Pro M1 Max 64GB ram, OS X 10.XX latest
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Electric Flute
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ejrolon wrote:
On another note the original screenshot from RVT indicates that the wall is a Curtain Wall too.
So now I am more confused as to why using the CW tool in AC is too much hassle.
Thanks Eduardo. You are right, the Revit exemple above is made with their CW Tool, I just notice it by you.
I had an idea, I will use the CW tool in a different way to deal with the multiple sizes of blocks in the running bond intersections. I will test it and return you.
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Laszlo Nagy
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Electric Flute,

I will also be interested in the solution you come up with.
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Eduardo Rolon
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I would also like to know about those RVT add-ons.
Eduardo Rolón AIA NCARB
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Electric Flute
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LaszloNagy wrote:
Electric Flute,

I will also be interested in the solution you come up with.
As the first (odd) row blocks differ from the second (even) row blocks, the load-bearing masonry project needs 2 plan views (1st row view and 2nd row view). Therefore, I created 2 CWs for the same wall, each CW in a unique layer for each Plan Views. One CW starts on the first row and another CW starts on the second row in between. With this method I model the wall like the real world and solved the following need:
- 2 Plan Views of each row. (1st row view and 2nd row view)
- There is no need to always delete intersection and corner blocks from the running bond masonry

Ok so far. But I got trouble in one display situation, I think it is a ArchiCAD bug: One of the CW don`t show it properly on plan view, because of the "Floor Plan Cut Plane". No matter what I do, the CW don't show as projected top view. So, this stopped me so far.
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Eduardo Rolon
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That line happens when you have two of the same object occupying the same space. If I am correct then moving one of the CWs should fix it.
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On the other point you don't need 2 CWs to have different rows. The Contrabim video shows how to do it.
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