Creating a simple extruded profile in ArchiCAD13

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am new to ArchiCAD and I am trying to create a simple oval extruded profile to represent a advertisement on the elevation of a building. I have tried a few different options (like attempting to create an extrusion as an object) but I have not found a way. It just needs to be a simple oval shape that can be extruded 100mm etc. It would also be good if I could attach a JPEG image of the advert to the face of the oval if that is possible.

Thanks

[Dwight]

You'll investigate the Custom Profile. This allows you to create an oval in section and extrude it using the beam or wall tool.

See Eric's article in the ArchiWiki:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/ComplexProfileTips

[Dwight]

As for placing a JPEG:
Since it is oval, you'll make a new material Using the JPEG as the texture image.

Use this new material to surface the oval.

The oval probably won't exactly fit, so you'll align the texture. I don't have Archicad 13 on right now, but it is probably found under Design>Align 3D Texture> Set origin. OR something like that. CLick around a little and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply Dwight. I have played around with the Profile Manager and have somewhat managed to achieve what I am after.

Firstly, when creating a new profile it has to be created with a Fill, as opposed to using the line tool I assume? When using the line tool, there are no issues creating a perfect oval, however when using the Fill tool it makes creating an oval much harder as the curve options (arc with tangent, arc by 3 points, arc by centre point) can not create an oval in one process. From what I gather, an oval has to be created with a combination of these with multiple lines and even then I can't get a perfect oval...Any way around this? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Ignore my previous post. I have figured out what I wanted to know. I just created a circle with the fill tool, and check the box 'Horizontal Stretch' which then allows me stretch the circle into a oval once the wall/beam is placed in the project.

[Dwight]

A clever solution.
However:
Circles are stretchy.
After drawing a circle, click on a node. The pet palette gives you the stretch-to-oval option.