New composite not showing up in available composite list

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I made a new composite, consisting of a brick wall of 80 cms. When creating it I made sure to mark that it can be used as a composite for walls.
However, when drawing the wall, I can not choose my newly created composite from the list.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Best regards,
Vincent

[Erwin Edel]

You need to change the structure from Basic (which uses building materials) to Composite.

[Anonymous]

Erwin wrote:
You need to change the structure from Basic (which uses building materials) to Composite.

Ooh I see! Thank you very much for the fast reply! Is this a new feature in AC19? I'd done the same procedure as I did now already a lot of times in AC18 but never stumbled upon this before!

[Erwin Edel]

Building materials were introduced in ArchiCAD17, so it shouldn't be new.

[Laszlo Nagy]

The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.

[Barry Kelly]

laszlonagy wrote:
The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.

Unless you want to fix the width of your wall.
Then even for a single skin I would use a composite so I don't have to manually set the wall width.

Barry.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Barry wrote:

laszlonagy wrote:
The question is why do you define a Composite Structure that has only one skin?
For structures with one skin you have the "Basic" Wall/Slab/Roof/Shell Structure type you can use.

Unless you want to fix the width of your wall.
Then even for a single skin I would use a composite so I don't have to manually set the wall width.

Barry.

So you would create a Composite for each different thickness of the same Wall material? Like, 100 mm brick, 150 mm brick, 250 mm brick, etc.? Interesting idea.

[Barry Kelly]

laszlonagy wrote:
So you would create a Composite for each different thickness of the same Wall material? Like, 100 mm brick, 150 mm brick, 250 mm brick, etc.? Interesting idea.

Exactly.

Barry.