Honeycomb Wall

[Anonymous]

I need to build a "honeycomb" wall, but have no idea how to build it in ArchiCad. The attach render has been made in Revit.

[Anonymous]

Something like this?
I use only columns and walls with some SEO's on the ends.

[Anonymous]

Just to be clear...

These openings are made with three beams automatically punching through the one wall. The nearest beam is shown in wireframe. Of course the same effect could be accomplished with a single profiled beam or arrays of simple ones. I have used squares for speed and simplicity. The shapes could be just about anything.

Of course after all this about beams and auto-intersection, there may be performance advantages to the SEOs. I haven't tested this.

[Anonymous]

Would you tell me how you got the beam to do that, Matthew?

[Anonymous]

zeropointreference wrote:
Would you tell me how you got the beam to do that, Matthew?

The beam needs to have a higher intersection priority than the wall and the layers have to have the same intersection number. A curious feature of this (for which I have yet to find a use) is that the holes can appear or not depending on the layers settings.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I meant make the beam turn into a 10x10 grid of small blocks.

[Anonymous]

zeropointreference wrote:
Sorry, I meant make the beam turn into a 10x10 grid of small blocks.

You just draw whatever shape(s) you want with fills in the profile editor.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure why it's never occurred to me that one can make unconnected pieces in the profile editor like that but it still be one object. Having a bit of an epiphany morning here.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I really appreciate all the contributions. I have a window with the shape that I need, so maybe I will go with that one.
What is a SEO?

[David Maudlin]

YA.H.VE wrote:
What is a SEO?

Solid Element Operation, you can learn about it in the Help files.

David