How I can do that in archicad

[Anonymous]

How I can made the Handrail in balcony for first floor and second floor

mean I have curved balcony with short wall and railing above ....

may be i can make the bulaster with profiler tool but how i can creat it

with the curved bath for balcony .. ??? may be put it one by one but

it's to hard ... any one have the easy method for do that .....

sorry for my bad English ....

thanks for all [/img]

[Karl Ottenstein]

Nice model for people to look at and ask "can I model that?". 😉

The balconies and rail are easy, as you say - curved slab,
Magic Wand curve wall above, Profiler for bands and rail.

The ironwork lattice between the half-wall and handrail is the challenge.

If this only has to look correct in photorenderings, then it is easy - use a curved wall and apply an alpha transparency texture image of the lattice: it will follow the curves and look fine from a distance (but paper thin close up of course) ...and cast shadows.

But, to show up properly in elevation and sections I guess you'd have to model it. You can create one panel and then place it tediously... but it looks like the panels themselves are curved? I suppose another fake - the geometry would be distorted and edge angles wouldn't be right - would be to model a curved wall the thickness of the iron/steel and then have a group of cutting masses to subtract the panel pattern from this wall ... duplicating and rotating the cutting group (or object) as needed to get the desired final result.

Will be interesting to read what other ideas are suggested...

[Edited: a careful reader noted that I typed "magic want" - which is of course the tool we all wish for. Corrected to "magic wand". 😉 ]

[Anonymous]

thanks for your suggest ....

I think we can draw 2 spline in the different level ( vertical distance panel ) and in elevation view you can complete the shape by draw line and

use truss maker

are this right for steel shape in balcony

.....

but what about the baluster in balcony at ground floor assume curved

balcony like the above

[Anonymous]

Profiler can make those balusters.
Draw a half cross section of the baluster using lines and arcs.
Group the lines and arcs and select them and
then select Profiler and make sure you
have the revolve profile icon selected.
Profiler will revolve the cross section through
360° and give you a solid shape.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

As Karl said, the ironwork is the only challenge.

Here is an easy (once you get the hang) way of doing it:

1- Draw the holes of the lattice, not the iron itself.
2- turn the holes into windows. This is very easy to do, appliyng a slab to each hole and then turning that slab into a WALLHOLE.
3- use those windows on a curved wall, and voila!

ah, and have fun

[Karl Ottenstein]

Excellent tip, Miguel!

[Petros Ioannou]

Krippahl wrote:
1- Draw the holes of the lattice, not the iron itself.
2- turn the holes into windows. This is very easy to do, appliyng a slab to each hole and then turning that slab into a WALLHOLE.
3- use those windows on a curved wall, and voila!
.......

Now, this is what I call a tip!
Bravo, Miguel!

Petros

[Anonymous]

Lateral thinking gets you anywhere

[Djordje]

Krippahl wrote:
As Karl said, the ironwork is the only challenge.

Here is an easy (once you get the hang) way of doing it:

1- Draw the holes of the lattice, not the iron itself.
2- turn the holes into windows. This is very easy to do, appliyng a slab to each hole and then turning that slab into a WALLHOLE.
3- use those windows on a curved wall, and voila!

ah, and have fun

Did you say CURVED? 😉

Not so easy, although close enough.

Great tip!

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Not so easy, although close enough.

"easy" is pep talk
As I teach Uni students, I always say it is easy, otherwise they won't even bother to try