We value your input!
Please participate in Archicad 28 Home Screen and Tooltips/Quick Tutorials survey

Libraries & objects
About Archicad and BIMcloud libraries, their management and migration, objects and other library parts, etc.
SOLVED!

Save Custom-Shape Doors or Windows - Cut Non-Perpendicular Holes in Walls

Reysol
Booster

Guys,

 

I am trying to figure out saving a custom-shape widnow with non-perpendicular holes in wall.

I used a single plane pitched roof and assigned 'Wallhole' to its ID. 

After rounds of trial and error, still no luck. 

 

If you folks have done this before, please shed me some light tell me the correct workflow.

Thank you very much in advance.

 

 

Operating system used: Windows 23


Capture 1.PNGCapture 2.PNGCapture 3.PNG

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
Solution

You can use roofs to create the door frame/leaf and they can have angled edges.

Similar to Heimo's tapered morph.

 

But creating a roof and giving it an ID of WALLHOLE, does not create a wallhole in my experimenting.

Only a slab seems to do that.

You can angle the edges of a slab but it will still only create a regular wallhole with edges perpendicular to the wall (opening).

 

So I think the only solution is GDL.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

View solution in original post

6 REPLIES 6
cuba
Expert

I think this is only possible in gdl.

Workaround by Heimo Mooslechner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tysfk2fTaIg

Apple M1 Max 32 GB Ventura
AC27

Though in GDL you do not work with "slabs" or "roofs", so the guide seems to suggest that saving out of the floorplan should be possible, but since even Heimo did a scuffed workaround, maybe a typo?

AC22-23 AUS 7000Help Those Help You - Add a Signature
Self-taught, bend it till it breaksCreating a Thread
Win11 | i9 10850K | 64GB | RX6600 Win10 | R5 2600 | 16GB | GTX1660
Solution

You can use roofs to create the door frame/leaf and they can have angled edges.

Similar to Heimo's tapered morph.

 

But creating a roof and giving it an ID of WALLHOLE, does not create a wallhole in my experimenting.

Only a slab seems to do that.

You can angle the edges of a slab but it will still only create a regular wallhole with edges perpendicular to the wall (opening).

 

So I think the only solution is GDL.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

cuba,

 

Thanks a lot for the reference. 

Thanks for looking into this, Lingwisyer.🙏

Thank you, Barry.

Correct, either slabs or roofs can create the door frame, leaf or windows in perpendicular wall holes.  

It seems to me that, Heimo's morph still cut the perpendicular wall holes.

 

Looks like GDL is the way to go.

Setup info provided by author