Creating custom wall profile.

[Anonymous]

I am extremely new to Archicad, and am trying to figure out how to make a custom wall profile. I want to create something like a wall sheathed with corrugated metal. I'd like to be able to control the size of the corrugation. I have tried using the profile manager, but the profile I created runs horizontally on the wall; I'd like the pattern (the corrugation) to run vertically. Is there a way to create a segment of a wall say a foot in length, and have it repeat as I extend the wall repeating the custom shape?

Any help in this matter would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Dwight]

not directly.

You can use the polygon wall tool to trace a corrugated line, but no rubberbanding.... but there's another problem: excess polygons. The more polygons, the longer the imaging takes.

You'd treat this like a long element and trim it to suit.

You will bog your 3D views down fairly quickly with unbridled corrugations. This is why there's a bitmap pattern in the library to fake corrugations in a rendering.

[Anonymous]

hmmm... I guess I'll have to make that work for the time being. If anyone else has any ideas/solutions, I'd love to hear them.

[Jere]

Build the wall without the cladding and then add the corrugated metal using the built-in library symbol?

[TomWaltz]

Surface treatments like that are usually just a bitmap material with a fill attached to the mateiral. It's really rare to need to model them.

[Laura Yanoviak]

TomWaltz wrote:
Surface treatments like that are usually just a bitmap material with a fill attached to the mateiral. It's really rare to need to model them.

I totally agree. We had corrugated siding on a recent project, but certainly didn't model it (I imagine that this could really bog things down). We relied on the corrugated texture for renderings, fills for elevations, and a corrugated linetype where applicable in details.