HOW TO ROTATE THE WALL

[Anonymous]

Have created a gym wall using both the slab and wall tools, now need to rotate it up to a 77• slant. Opened the library part, but can't figure out what to add, or what tool to use to rotate...I guess it is around the z axis?

[Erich]

Go to your 3D script and type

ROTx 77

at the top of the script window. In Archicad the Z axis is vertical so you will want to rotate about either the X or Y axis.

You may also want to see the overhead projection of the assembly in 2D. If so, go to your 2D script window comment out anything that might be there (I suspect that there is nothing and your 2D view is from the 2D symbol window) and type

PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

at the top of the script. This will have archiCAD produce an overhead projection of your rotated object.

[Anonymous]

Think it rotated up, but don't have a proper 2d view. Not sure what to "comment out" and what is "

"PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

?

Entered "PROJECT2 3, 270, 2" at the top of the 2d window, but nothing happened...

Erich wrote:
Go to your 3D script and type

ROTx 77

at the top of the script window. In Archicad the Z axis is vertical so you will want to rotate about either the X or Y axis.

You may also want to see the overhead projection of the assembly in 2D. If so, go to your 2D script window comment out anything that might be there (I suspect that there is nothing and your 2D view is from the 2D symbol window) and type

PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

at the top of the script. This will have archiCAD produce an overhead projection of your rotated object.

[Anonymous]

Re read your advice, performed all changes, but here is what the library part shows....is there a way to get the 2d overhead window to show a projected canted wall?

Erich wrote:
Go to your 3D script and type

ROTx 77

at the top of the script window. In Archicad the Z axis is vertical so you will want to rotate about either the X or Y axis.

You may also want to see the overhead projection of the assembly in 2D. If so, go to your 2D script window comment out anything that might be there (I suspect that there is nothing and your 2D view is from the 2D symbol window) and type

PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

at the top of the script. This will have archiCAD produce an overhead projection of your rotated object.

[Anonymous]

Here is what I learned about special canted wall objects today. THANK YOU TO ERICH... See the fancy gym wall in the distance?

Archimamamia wrote:
Re read your advice, performed all changes, but here is what the library part shows....is there a way to get the 2d overhead window to show a projected canted wall?

Erich wrote:
Go to your 3D script and type

ROTx 77

at the top of the script window. In Archicad the Z axis is vertical so you will want to rotate about either the X or Y axis.

You may also want to see the overhead projection of the assembly in 2D. If so, go to your 2D script window comment out anything that might be there (I suspect that there is nothing and your 2D view is from the 2D symbol window) and type

PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

at the top of the script. This will have archiCAD produce an overhead projection of your rotated object.

[Erich]

I have been away for a bit. Did you get the 2D to work or are there still issues?

[David Maudlin]

Archimamamia wrote:
Not sure what to "comment out"

Comment Out is the same as Uncomment, which adds an "!" in front of each line which prevents the line from being read as code (reads as a comment). This command can be added to your Work Environment for faster script changes. Uncomment serves the same purpose as deleting the code, without actually removing it.

Archimamamia wrote:
and what is "

"PROJECT2 3, 270, 2

?

Entered "PROJECT2 3, 270, 2" at the top of the 2d window, but nothing happened...

The rest of the code should be deleted or Uncommented for this code to work properly. It is creating a 2D Symbol directly from the 3D code, which can easily show complex forms that would be hard to code in 2D, the downside is that it is more resource intensive, so should only be used in special cases, not as a standard solution. The command must be entered exactly, the extra " in your text will render it unintelligible.

David