How to model - full hip raised panels

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to model hip raised panels on the facade of a building. What is the best way to do this? I am thinking the morph tool? I am completely incompetent when it comes to the morph tool, mostly because I've never really explored it. I've tried to use it briefly, but I personally find it one of the most unpredictable and difficult tools in Archicad.

I could do it with bits of walls and slabs, but that also seems cumbersome.

[Anonymous]

Something like the panels between the windows here.

[Steve Jepson]

several ways to do that. I think I would use slabs and then convert the slabs that need a beveled edge to a morph for tweaking. In a 3d view of the morph you want to bevel, just grab a corner node and move it down.

You might like to just make something for SEO to sculpt the raised panels. ?

[Steve Jepson]

Did you model the window in the gable end with the rounded walls ?

[Anonymous]

No, that was an older project, and the elevations and sections were done with linework, not modeled at all.

Sometimes I don't know what's more tedious, doing a bunch of linework, or making and messing with a bunch of 3D parts.

[Erich]

Search for this object "Paneling EMK 12" it will handle the general rectangular shaped panel quite well. If you have more unusual shaped panels, you will need to resort to other options.

[Anonymous]

Erich wrote:
Search for this object "Paneling EMK 12" it will handle the general rectangular shaped panel quite well. If you have more unusual shaped panels, you will need to resort to other options.

Ah, that will work quite well, thank you. Much appreciated.

[Steve Jepson]

and it that is still not exactly what you need, turn it into a morph and tweak

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:
and it that is still not exactly what you need, turn it into a morph and tweak

That turned out to be the solution to get inset panel to show correctly after
seo'ing out a section of this cool EMK object raised panel for an additional recessed section.
Maybe there is a way to do it directly in the EMK panel, but I could not find it.
It would work, but show the cut area as white.
And, thank you Erich, great object.
I will find a place to use it on my next project.

[Erich]

The panel is kept fairly simple so converting to a morph or using a SEO is the simplest way to handle special conditions. If you need those special conditions frequently, the object is coded fairly simply. It should not be too difficult to find what you want to change in GDL.