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

Tapered Wallhole

Lingwisyer
Guru
Hi all,

How would you go about making a tapered void in a wall? I am wanting to use a window but it would appear that you cannot use a morph(?) as your WALLHOLE. I just get a box hole when I try... In GDL you could probably use a cutting object of the desired shape instead of a wallhole but is making it rather complicated...




Ling.

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
1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
Solution
Lingwisyer
Guru
Hmooslechner wrote:
the possible workflow:

https://youtu.be/Tysfk2fTaIg

example EduAutAC22-Version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/edr69y5fckueqdf/%20TAPERED%20WALLHOLE%20Window.pln?dl=0
Barry wrote:
Here is one with a curved slab with WALLNICHE ID.
I recommend placing the slab on the project origin - I didn't do that for this example hence the co-ordinates being away from '0'.

Barry.

Given my current shape, there is no single convergence point... though that can be modified.



Thanks all,

Ling.

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

View solution in original post

10 REPLIES 10
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I would say that the 'WALLNICHE' would be the solution here.
It has a method to produce a pyramidal hole, so all you need is the shape (which you have) and what would be the apex point of the pyramid (which you will have to work out).

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
SEO

ArchiCAD 25 7000 USA - Windows 10 Pro 64x - Dell 7720 64 GB 2400MHz ECC - Xeon E3 1535M v6 4.20GHz - (2) 1TB M.2 PCIe Class 50 SSD's - 17.3" UHD IPS (3840x2160) - Nvidia Quadro P5000 16GB GDDR5 - Maxwell Studio/Render 5.2.1.49- Multilight 2 - Adobe Acrobat Pro - ArchiCAD 6 -25

Lingwisyer
Guru
Having a million and one SOEs becomes troublesome once something changes...

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
Hmooslechner
Moderator
the possible workflow:

https://youtu.be/Tysfk2fTaIg

example EduAutAC22-Version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/edr69y5fckueqdf/%20TAPERED%20WALLHOLE%20Window.pln?dl=0
AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I have just done a rectangular wallniche.
You will just need to add the points for your curved shape.

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
Lingwisyer
Guru
That is an idea Heimo. Did not think of building out the taper in a linear void...

Barry, that was written by AC? Where is the option to do a niche?



Ling.

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
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I created a WALLHOLE (slab with ID) and then turned it into a WALLNICHE but I just tried and you can do the same if you call the ID WALLNICHE - it will create the WALLNICHE code correctly.
You just have to change the method to pyramidal and set the x,y,z co-ordinates for the apex.

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
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Here is one with a curved slab with WALLNICHE ID.
I recommend placing the slab on the project origin - I didn't do that for this example hence the co-ordinates being away from '0'.

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
Solution
Lingwisyer
Guru
Hmooslechner wrote:
the possible workflow:

https://youtu.be/Tysfk2fTaIg

example EduAutAC22-Version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/edr69y5fckueqdf/%20TAPERED%20WALLHOLE%20Window.pln?dl=0
Barry wrote:
Here is one with a curved slab with WALLNICHE ID.
I recommend placing the slab on the project origin - I didn't do that for this example hence the co-ordinates being away from '0'.

Barry.

Given my current shape, there is no single convergence point... though that can be modified.



Thanks all,

Ling.

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