Modeling antique facade - how to quick and easy ?

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I'll need to draw an antique facade, such as one here on the right:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2560841768_b300e8676d_o.jpg

I have a lot of survey sketches and dimentions on paper so my idea was to draw it in 2d in archicad first (plan and elevation), but I have no idea how to quite simply transform it to 3d. Building rustiaction, pilasters and all details with walls and objects seems like a difficult task in this case.

It would probably be a good idea to draw it in Sketchup, but if I do so, I'd have one, ineditable object later on in Archicad.

Do You have any suggestions, ideas?

Thanks!

[sinceV6]

It really is not that hard.
These type of facades tend to have a lot of repetitive details, so practically you only need to model a couple of them.

Use walls, beams, complex profiles, shells, morphs and objects to model the details. SEO are really useful in some details.

When possible, keep the model as parametric and simple as you can; meaning that you should try to keep original tools (walls, beams, etc) in the model in case you need to adjust something; for instance... if some windows are different sizes it pays off to have simple elements that you can stretch.

[Ernest Atanasiu]

maybe this will help you:
http://myarchicad.free.fr/Etudes/Le%20Petit%20Trianon/Trianon01.htm

[Anonymous]

Thanks Uisanata ! This will help for sure.