Are roofs always a pain?
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2006-07-14
04:37 PM
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2023-05-23
03:28 PM
by
Rubia Torres
I'm modelling a simple 4 metre by 5 metre cabin. I want to put a straight forward gable roof on it. I can't say that AC seems at all intuitive as I can't get the damned thing right...
Any help appreciated. Any decent tutorials around?
Cheers
Nicholas

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2006-07-14 04:45 PM
The only tutorials I know of is the chapter in the Archicad Learning Guide books/movies.

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2006-07-14 05:25 PM
ArchiCAD makes automatic hip roofs. The step from hip to gable ISN'T intuitive, it is progosticative.
When I want a gable, I use the hip roof tool to find the center between opposing wall faces, throw away the intermediate hip, and stretch the top corner of the roofs to form the gable.
It is quick once you get the hang of it and requires no finicking.
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2006-07-14 06:21 PM
managed to make a hipped roof. but how tto get rid of the hip I don't want? when I select it affects the whole roof...
TIA
Nicholas

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2006-07-14 06:26 PM
On this forum we are all helpful, but it is NOT a substitute for following a basic tutorial. Get some training, you lazy person.
You have "Autogroup" turned on.
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2006-07-14 06:26 PM
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2006-07-14 06:28 PM

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2006-07-14 06:29 PM

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2006-07-14 06:59 PM
But he has a point...

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2006-07-14 07:18 PM
Fifteen years later, this fluidity has been passed on to Sketchup.
ArchiCAD has CEASED to be an "intuitive" program. By employing more-and-more functionality, the commands become increasingly cryptic, and any productivity strategy more abstract. No more singing "yummy yummy yummy, I got love in my tummy."
It's "Volga boatmen" now.
This is why users are wasting their time fooling with the program without an afternoon of study of the cryptic basics. ArchiCAD might be getting close to how architects work, but the diffusion of tool functionality and the relationships (like grouping) that can be inadvertently created are barriers to simple functionality.
It's a trick!