Wish upon an Object from BIMcomponents.com

[Levente Filetoth]

Dear Archi-Talkers,

I guess I am preaching to the choir when saying that GDL is one of the core assets of ArchiCAD. To provide support for great GDL content to get created we launched BIMcomponents.com with ArchiCAD 16. In order to give some boost to the interest for the topic we decided to help deliver some long wished GDL objects that no-one has created as of yet.

Here we call upon a little contest: share your wish for an object that you cannot find in the standard ArchiCAD library and we will see to it that some of them get programmed and shared with all of you through the BIMcomponents.com portal.

The rules are very simple, just make a post with a concise description of what you think could be solved with the help of GDL and your award is that if your idea turns out to be interesting enough it will be programed by a professional GDL developer.

Please give us your ideas and let's see if we can create some extra value to the ArchiCAD community with the help of GDL.

Disclaimer: This promotional activity's goal is to find objects that are over the line of standard object development project, hence will never make it to the standard ArchiCAD library. Please use this thread to provide your input to this specific topic and please avoid raising issues related to the development of the standard ArchiCAD object libraries and/or to the development of the GDL technology in general. Thank you for your understanding.

[Laszlo Nagy]

As a moderator who reads every post and has done so in the last several years (so I have some kind of idea of what people wished for before), I am wishing on behalf of the ArchiCAD community for the Modular Joinery object to be available to all.

[vistasp]

Plus one on that!

[Anonymous]

Agree! Good one Laszlo.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Wish: asymmetrical arch-topped windows and doors - that is where the shoulder height on one side does not match the shoulder on the other - and the radius is parametric.

Attached is an image with windows that cannot be modeled with the symmetric-only windows in the standard AC library. (These windows are not curtainwalls - but standard, mulled/ganged residential windows with standard interior / exterior casing/trim, etc.

Thanks,
Karl

[vistasp]

I'd love to see a catenary arch join the existing arched openings.

[Achille Pavlidis]

I would like to see the modular joinery as part of the standard library too.

Also I would like to have pocket sliding windows.

Also I would like to have pocket sliding shutters for the pocket sliding doors/windows.

Thanks Santa.

[RandyC]

I would like to see a truss system that works like roofmaker wizard - or is this delving beyond Object creation.

[Laszlo Nagy]

As far as I understand this thread is for wishing for individual objects you would like to have programmed in GDL.

[RandyC]

maybe some API developers will read this forum