How To ...?? please help !!

[Anonymous]

hello to all !
i'm new to the forum and i was wondering if i could use some help to my thesis.
i'm using Archicad 11 and i'm trying to design something like that (picture)
i made the mesh using columns and beams but i cannot fill the triangles with glazed wall...
any opinion?
any suggestion?
thank you in advanced !!

[Anonymous]

Use the roof tool.

[Anonymous]

thank you for the answer but is it possible to make
a wall like this one?
with triangles of glass going up to the roof??
thank you!!

like this (picture) but filled with glass !

[Anonymous]

This is a tricky one. The roof tool is still probably your best bet but it will be a chore fitting all the bits. There's a way to use the mesh tool to make the surfaces laying on their side, save as a library part, and rotate into place, but this is not simple to describe.

[Gerald Hoffman]

You might want to try OBJECTiVE. You can easily trim and rotate things in Elevation, Section or Plan view which you can't do with the roof tool. It is free for Students I believe.

www.encina.co.uk

Cheers,

[Anonymous]

thank you for your replies.
but encina is not free.

i found on the net this picture and is quite the same with my project.
are you familiar with any other method i can do something like that, or even an other software so i can do it?

thank you again !

[Gerald Hoffman]

I did qualify the free bit as for Students. AFAIK this is the case. If you are not a qualified Student then it is not free but worth every penny or whatever your currency happens to be.

Cheers,

[Karl Frost]

There is a "Mesh to Roof" add-on which is great - you can model a complex surface with a mesh and then run the add-on to get individual roof objects.
Find it here:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/downloads/goodies11/INT.html

[Ralph Wessel]

antonis123 wrote:
thank you for your replies.
but encina is not free.

OBJECTiVE will automatically work without entering registration details provided you are using an educational license for ArchiCAD. Just download from here, install, and you should be up and running. It will certainly make light work of the installation you're trying to model - let me know if you want further direction.

[Anonymous]

antonis123 wrote:
are you familiar with any other method i can do something like that, or even an other software so i can do it?

Hi Antonis,

Did you try Google SketchUp? http://sketchup.google.com/product/gsu.html They have a free version for download.
There is also a plug-in that allows importing SketchUp models into ArchiCAD (you can download it from here http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/addons/sketchup/su_plugin_download.html )

Hope that helps,
Adrian Tudoreanu