General rotation function

[Anonymous]

Is there a simple way to rotate any object/wall/slab/geometry on any axis or combination of axes? I have been assuming there was and that I just hadn't located the button yet but I'm beginning to think that is an incorrect assumption.

I know you can rotate a beam by typing in a slope. Is there any common function or button that works on any geometry to rotate the item in the x, y and z axes?

[Laura Yanoviak]

Select the slab and view it in 3D. Go to File > Libraries and Objects > Save 3D Model as ...

[Laura Yanoviak]

Save the object to your Project Library. Select "Object" and "Editable GDL Script" from the dialog, click OK. Insert the new object into your plan, the result is below (plan view in upper right corner).

[Laura Yanoviak]

Rakela wrote:
Seraphin,
you need think, what do you want to achieve and then think about the ac tool that will get you there...and make sense....if i want a vertical element, why should i use the slab tool? the wall tool would be more appropiate for that case, etc.

Rakela -- do you know an easy way to make a circular wall? I don't...

[Rakela Raul]

Neither do I Laura, but I would SEO it with the Tube 11 shape under Special Construction object in the ac libs.

and as I see it, Seraphin just want a circular object..i would use that same object 'tube 11' with a min interior radius and would have the ability to rotate it as I wish.

you are absolutely correct regardless

[Dwight]

This is an ongoing Archicad deficiency.

The poster correctly wants a rotation control for Archicad primitives.

It is not there.

However, various torturous workarounds exist:

For a circular disk, tilted, consider the Cylinder 11 object that has such a parameter.

For irregular elements, the makeaslabaGDLobject/ArchiRotate method is best.

And the easy way to make a circular wall is to use the complex profile aspect, drawing the wall perpendicular to its linear axis. Weak, I know.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Rakela wrote:
Neither do I Laura, but I would SEO it with the Tube 11 shape under Special Construction object in the ac libs.

Of course, it definitely helps to know what Seraphin is trying to accomplish (i.e. does he/she need a circular wall, or an SEO operator?).

[Ralph Wessel]

Seraphim wrote:
Is there a simple way to rotate any object/wall/slab/geometry on any axis or combination of axes? I have been assuming there was and that I just hadn't located the button yet but I'm beginning to think that is an incorrect assumption.
I know you can rotate a beam by typing in a slope. Is there any common function or button that works on any geometry to rotate the item in the x, y and z axes?

I see that OBJECTiVE has already been recommended to you. To clarify, it will allow you to rotate and split any GDL object in 3D and place hotspots on the 3D body for easy snapping.

It won't currently rotate any geometry, e.g. walls, because ArchiCAD doesn't support that kind of transformation. Slabs and roofs, however, can quickly be transformed into 3D objects with OBJECTiVE's profiling tools, which can be rotated, split, and bent in 3D (see attached image)

[__archiben]

Laura wrote:
Of course, it definitely helps to know what Seraphin is trying to accomplish...

it does. but if i'm understanding you correctly you just need to incline a wall and a large round column at the same angle. use the column as an operator for a SEO and then put it on a hidden layer . . . ?

~/archiben

[__archiben]

reverse angle with the operators off . . .

(you need to ensure that the the operator layer is assigned a different intersection number to the column or they will automatically form a junction with each other).

b

[__archiben]

definitely a wall - you can still put windows and doors in . . .

b