Problems with placing roads on mesh...

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody
I am new with ArchiCAD and am drawing a landscape with roads and buildings, I am trying to add roads on mesh, I did some search about how to do it, but still could not get till the end, my landscape is complicated and to add roads I used fill and then edited it in photoshop and I could not put it back in archiCAD and place on mesh.
pleas help, how can I do it? maybe there is other way to do it...
Thank you for your time

[Djordje]

Try ArchiTerra.

Search in Archicad Wiki, the whole procedure should be there.

[Thomas Holm]

I wouldn't recommend starting with Architerra at the first try. It's a specialized third-party add-on which you might need or not.

A simpler way might be to try this tip: http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2006/issue10-archicad.html
At the end of this article on SEOs, there is a brilliant tip describing a simple way to add a road to a mesh with very little effort - no 3D node editing!

It's in AECByte´s Tips and Tricks section, which I recommend to check out now and then. I don't know if this tip is in the WIKI too, and I also don't remember how I found it - it might be from someone in this forum. However. really worthwhile reading!

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your reply
I tried to add roads on mesh with SEOs, but when I do it I get message "there are no Valid Target or operator elements stored! "

[Thomas Holm]

Check the Archicad Help files for how to use the SEO. Do every step, each in turn. You have to select something and then click the Get Target button, then select something else and then the Get Operator button etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
Check the Archicad Help files for how to use the SEO. Do every step, each in turn. You have to select something and then click the Get Target button, then select something else and then the Get Operator button etc. etc.

I did it that way, but still it does not work when I try to add roads on mesh, but its ok.
thank you

[Anonymous]

One thing that is not clear in the help files about SEO
is that after selecting something and designating it as the target
you must de-select it before selecting something else
and designating it as the operator and you must
de-select it before executing the SEO.
Peter Devlin

[David Maudlin]

Peter wrote:
... and you must de-select it before executing the SEO.

Peter:

I have found that I do not need to de-select the last selected element(s) before hitting the "Execute" button for the SEO to work.

HTH

David

[Anonymous]

Hello David,
Yes, I have found this to be true also.
I just wanted to be consistent to make the point.
Peter Devlin

[Andy Thomson]

We posted this here also:

http://www.archicad.ca/?p=12