need help with hyperbolic roof!

[Anonymous]

Hi all!


need some help, ive been asked to put together a design for a project that has a roof in the shape of a hyperbolic parabaroid. Im not a big user of Archicad and certainly not familiar with GDL scripting but it looks like I will need to learn for this task!

While im going to try and lern my self I was wondering if their is anyone here who has experience of writing a script for a hyperbolic parabaloid roof in archicad or knows where I might find some help?

Im not even sure how wel archicad handles such roofs especially if i want to be able to stretch and rotate them.

If anyone can help me with this it would be much much appreciated

sarah

[gerd]

hi sarah,

it is a gdl object, but principally it is based upon the mesh tool.
there are two identical meshes used inside the object (with seo method) to get the thickness of the hyperbolic paraboloid

but because of the mesh inside the form in floor plan is limeted to rectangular form.
the tentmaker object mentioned above is more flexible in usage.
the link seems not to work anymore. if you need it, send me your mailadress by private message, then I will send the file to you.

best regards, gerd

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Tentmaker can also be found right here:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=5996&highlight=tentmaker
[in the message from Olivier Dentan]

[Djordje]

Ignacio wrote:
Tentmaker can also be found right here:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=5996&highlight=tentmaker
[in the message from Olivier Dentan]

Olivier, will you please post it in the Free ArchiCAD Libraries topic?