Double curvature, ideally solid

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

I need to model these funky precast panels and use them in ArchiCAD. I am told they are not hard to model in Sketchup, but that they will get all messed up when bringing them into ArchiCAD.

So would the C4D add-on be the only way?

[Anonymous]

Hello Ignacio,
Could you model one of these precast panels with the mesh tool
and save it as a library part, and rotate it to the vertical ?
Just a thought.
Peter Devlin

[TomWaltz]

I think Peter is right: model them as a mesh lying down, then save it as an object and stand it up.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Yup, that is what I am doing while I try to come up with a better plan. But I suspect it will not look very good with the mesh.

Peter wrote:
Hello Ignacio,
Could you model one of these precast panels with the mesh tool
and save it as a library part, and rotate it to the vertical ?
Just a thought.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Hello Ignacio,
Why don't you think it will look very good as a mesh ?
Is it because you think it has to have ridges ?
Meshes and MASS commands don't have to have ridges.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Peter wrote:
Why don't you think it will look very good as a mesh ?

The geometry of the thing is freaking impossible, I just spent 1.5 h on it. Either I spend two days ArchiCAD-drafting the descriptive geometry exercise with a bunch of auxiliary planes on the sort-of-paraboloid-like faces and then trace the resulting contour lines with the mesh, or I dumb it down and it will look clumsy.

[Anonymous]

Hello Ignacio,
Hmm... I did not know it was so complicated.
Sorry for the suggestion.
Peter Devlin

[Richard Morrison]

Do you have ArchiForma? There are some surface tools that might be able to do the job.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Peter wrote:
Hmm... I did not know it was so complicated.
Sorry for the suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion! I would not have tried so hard had it not been for the suggestion, at least not at the start. Now I know that if I go the way of the mesh I should aim for some approximate resemblance only.

[Aussie John]

One thing for sure is Antoni Gaudí never used ArchiCAD