perforated blockwall and complex profile/Gdl

[Anonymous]

Hi
I try to use the complex profile manager to do a perforated blockwall, but it appear that when i use capture profile of selection option,the profile editor's window can only capture the element (wall, i have on the plan) from the lateral posture, here i can customize the wall , but how do i have a longitudinal view so as to be able to round up the editing so as to hopefully create a perforated blockwall, or is it not possible?.
Alternatively how can i have a perforated blockwall the one i did earlier, though appear as perforated on the elevation and perspective but it did not appear as such on the floor plan.
Secondly how easy or otherwise is it for someone who has no knowledge of programming to create Gdl objects


Thank you in advance

Femi

[Dwight]

I will only answer your question if you tell me what the attached picture is.
[Somewhere in Lagos near 6°27'44.89"N 3°14'47.04"E] Deal?

The solution to your problem is obscure. To make a wall of perforations, you'll need to make wide wall modules where the custom profile is perpendicular to the wall direction - you'll be making a really wide, shallow wall.

OR: an array of window openings in a conventional wall

OR: a custom GDL object

OR: a custom profile wall used as a SEO operator to cut the holes in the conventional wall.

OR: make each block as an object and stack the wall. This lets you plan exactly where openings occur and how to deal with the lintels.

[Anonymous]

Hi

Thanks for the reply, if i get you right about wide wall module. you means creating a wall that stretch horizontally in thickness instead of vertically then make a unit block out of it, if possible and stack it vertically, i will try them out,
i am not sure the other options you gave (except custom profile option) will reflect the preforated blockwall on the floor plan as such,except if it has to be labeled, they will just appear as normal walls.
I have tried little tricks on my own, it's only the limitation of expressing it on the floor plan i am having.
How easy or otherwise is it creating a Gdl OBJECT, do i have to know programming?

The attached picture appear to be for the International Trade fair complex at Badagry along Lagos-epe expressway, i ask a surveyor to help get the location with the aid of the Lattitude and longitude you provided.

Cheers

Femi

[Dwight]

Thank you. That is close enough. It is one of the most beautiful and interesting things to be seen from the sky - using the wonderful 3D Space Navigator and Google Earth. I am now visiting all Archicad TALK users homes from the sky and will post images later.

Making objects need not involve GDL.

Anything modeled can become an object: model a block with a slab, take a side view in 3D and use File> Libraries and Objects> "Save 3D Model as object" to create an Object.

This is something every Archicad user needs to know to make anything into an object.

[Anonymous]

Send a private message with your request to Peter Devlin.
he made a window library part composed of vent blocks. (Perforated blocks. It worked really well in my project.

[Anonymous]

Hi, Dwight

Actually i have used the option before (saving construction elements in 3D enviroment as an object) but i am always confronting the limitation of represention it accurately on the floor plan as being a perforated object, so i thought it is only the Gdl Approach that can offer such flexibility.

jocontreras, i will do that................

Thank you everyone

Femi