Eaves/fascias

[Anonymous]

Hi

Does any one have any ideas on how I could achieve fascia detail as seen below.

[Anonymous]

There is a great ad on called EaveDesigner that we use. I don't remember where we got it. It does exactly what what you are seeking.

Rip Weaver
Town Landscape Architect
The Town of Mt Laurel

Mac OSX Cube 500 mHz
Archicad 8.1/9.0

[Vitruvius]

For the specialized fascia profiles you've mentioned, you can use 'Tools/Profiler' to draw the profile and the path on your drawing using 2D drafting lines and arcs etc. The profiler will then combine these into a 3D symbol.

The geometries are a bit unituitive but works OK once you've figured out its idiosyncracies.

Cheers

[Karl Ottenstein]

Actually, your fascia profile looks so simple, that just doing a Solid Element Op "add" of a slab should do the trick. (The add gets rid of the internal lines when you cut a section.)

For the gutters, consider the rxGutters add-on from www.arexline.com

Karl

[Vitruvius]

The SOE tip is a good one.

But I'm generally not really a big fan of Add-ons for such arcane things as eaves.

For starters, you can do most of what you need within AC. And secondly, the more esoteric Add-ons aren't that well supported and tend to be buggy and may not be around 2 versions down the road (or even half a version down the road). Not a problem if you're doing a one-off project but hugely problematic if you're doing an ongoing refurbishment of an historical building (which is probably the only reason you'd need a specialized eaves Add-on anyway!!!)

I still have some duff Add-on called WindowMaker sitting on my shelf gathering dust. Appeared version 6.5 vanished version 7.0. That was a waste of US $200. Oh, and Abvents AV-Works. More money down the spout during version 8.1 only to purchase version 9 and realize Lightworks is way better. Another waste of US $200. RevealMaker - kind of useful but version 6 then whoosh, and curved wall reveals forbidden (nice to have an add-on dictate the geometry of your project), and about US $125. The only thing I seem to have missed is the Add-on called 'Useless Money Spunker V2.3'. Though I'm looking to spend US $500. if anyone has a copy.

That being said. For someone new to the programme, and dependent upon your needs, there are a couple of very useful Add-ons.

ArchiForma for free form modelling.
ArchiTerra for landscape and topography.

And ArchiStair seems promising, though it's relatively new and has a few things needing polishing. But the above are provided by Cigraph, who consistantly produce really useful stuff and timely updates, and!!!, they're very proactive about supporting their product.

Cheers,