Freely shaped courtain wall

[Anonymous]

I'm in need of achieving effect similar to the one shown in picture below:
http://www.wheremilan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fiera-milano.jpg
So far, I was doing things like that in Revit with massing tool and it really was extremely easy and simple - I'd just model my shape and click on it once to get the trick done. Archcad seems to be a whole lot different story however. I tried to use morph and shell tools but apparently there is no way to convert them into curtain walls and the curtain wall tool itself does not allow for nearly as much modifications as I require. Is there any way to achieve such result? Am I missing something obvious? Or maybe I could somehow import curtain wall geometry created in Revit?
Thank you.

[Ahmed_K]

we have not decided yet, but there are small companies in my country which can + - produce components for such projects ( not too complex shapes )

[Steve Jepson]

What you can do is model things as much as possible as complex profiles so you can update large groups of them with just by editing the profile.

For this reason, your initial model might be modeled with very simple objects that have a centerline and connect at a point that will not be changed when you change the complex profile. Something like a very small solid round rod, or a morph line. Also, you will probably want to go back and forth between simple profiles and more detailed complex profiles as your working on it.

Pick the manufacture first. This will keep you from getting too far away form what is feasible.

If you care to share your design concept I could perhaps help you select a manufacture for the components. The ArchiCAD tools you use to model them depends on what they are like.

[Steve Jepson]

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[Ahmed_K]

another example !

[Steve Jepson]

that is so cool! I wish I had projects like that to model.

Have you tried to see if this ArchiCAD object could be of any use ?



There are some .gsm objects out there that might be helpful. Also, the .gdl scripts for some of these things is not that hard to tweak.

[Ahmed_K]

I played around in the past with these forms, the results were ordinary, nothing original, I need to practice more. as I discovered new things !!

[Steve Jepson]

you can explode the into morphs, combine with other parts and save as something new.

[Anonymous]

Search this forum for Dragon, posted by Jose Gemez. I believe that object could help you. I do not know if Jose kept developing the object or what happened to it, but in any case you can contact Jose and find out.

HTH.
Cheers.

[Steve Jepson]

http://www.garquitectos.es/