Simple cube...with movable nodes

[rgarand]

Hello everyone,

I have a simple question to ask and I hope I get a answer like "The GDL object in in the Special Edition Library" or something like that.

I am looking for a simple cube, which I know is in the Basic Shapes part of the ArchiCAD library...but I would like to move each corner node of the cube independently. This is a very typical thing that can be done in the 3D studio's and Cinema 4D programs, but in CAD programs it seems a bit more complicated. I know straight autocad can not even accomplish this task.

Has anyone developed an object that can do this?

All I want to do is draw a slab and take the bottom nodes of this slab, slide them in the x/y direction to make a trapazoid type object and move on...I know I can make it in profiler and the GDL tools plugin...but why can't I do this with the slab object.

Any thoughts?

[david nicholson-cole]

F. wrote:
This was no criticism in your cube-object. I understood rgarands ask for a "cube", that he needs something like a polyhedron with 6 surfaces. The rough shaped flexcube is yet quiet similar to this.

One could do an object where the faces simply pull in any direction, keeping all the faces planar, but this can be done in Archicad without any GDL. (unless it was capable of skewing, which would be interesting.... one could do an object that used XForm to work. the object i uploaded uses COONS, 6 of them to form a deformed cuboid.

[TomWaltz]

Brilliant, yet twisted, at the same time! I love it!

[Karl Ottenstein]

Brilliant, David!

Karl

[rgarand]

David,

Thanks! This definately does the job I was looking for.

ArchiCAD Talk is great!