How was this freely adjustable Basic wall created without a Complex Profile or Solid Element Operati

[st]

Hi everyone, I found this wall in a client's file and I can't work out how it can exist.

It is a Basic wall, yet its geometry is fully dynamic and freely adjustable.

How can someone create a wall like this without using a Complex Profile or Solid Element Operations, while keeping it a Basic wall? I don't know how the client built it, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

[Lpalma · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the Log Details menu.

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/28/INT/_AC28_Help/040_ElementsVB/040_ElementsVB-17.htm

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

@Lpalma ,

You beat me to it!

Barry.

[JeffH]

Could also be achieved via SEO's but there is no icon indicating that those were used in that wall in your 3d snapshot with the wall selected.

[st]

Wow! Thanx guys! I really wonder how such a tool can exist and yet not offer a little more detail. I mean, couldn’t a wall have vertical grooves like these, or could you assign a specific profile to those grooves? I design industrial steel buildings with cladding panels. If I could use the panel profile as part of the wall itself, that would be really interesting and useful.

[Barry Kelly]

It is a very old solution literally made for log wall houses.

I think it was around even before complex profiles and has become obsolete and pretty much forgotten since complex profiles have become so popular.

I think some may still be using it - I never have other than experimentally.

Barry.