Real Curves in Archicad

[Anonymous]

Happy new Year everyone God Bless you in this new year!

I'm have a problem with segmented geometry in elevation. In the office I work we are designing a classic building with a lot of details and a lot of rounded things (see the attached pics) and all rounded geometry is segmented in elevations and sections, and 1st it doesn't look good, 2nd I can't measure radius of the rounded windows, 3rd this bring workarounds that I need to make to get things right and to look professional.
See the attachments how everything is segmented.

And my question is, Is there a way to make this geometry as real curves without segmentation and that I can take radius from it?
The first pic is the main elevation

[Anonymous]

This is A close up to a part of the round window

[Anonymous]

And this is a section of the main crown in the main hall, was made with a beam and complex profile.
See how everything is supposed to be curved is segmented.

[David Maudlin]

arqrivas:

There is not much you can do about the curve resolution in Complex Profiles, see this thread for an example: Custom Profile.
If the Objects and Windows are coded in GDL, then there are a few GDL commands (Resol, Toler, Radius) that control the curve resolution.
Sometimes when needing to dimension a segmented elevation element like you show, I will add an arc (Arc/Circle Tool) over the segmented element, this allows use of the Radial Dimension Tool.

David

[Steve Jepson]

You will not need to settle for the unacceptable curve resolution you are showing. I will post some examples soon.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, David and Steve.
I've been a little busy, that's why my late response.
The custom windows are not made in GDL, but with slabs and besides that there are Details in the facade made with morph that are also giving me problems with the curves.

I also drew arcs to get this radius this time. Arc will be fine from time to time, but in this office the designs are that style and we're going to have a lot of curves and arched windows.
I wish I could find a good workflow in how to work out these designs in Archicad. If someone has any experience with this type of projects I will appreciate some tips and tricks. Thanks for your help.

[Steve Jepson]

Smooooooth- yes. Zoom in on this Morph. But the poly count may be off the charts.

http://screencast.com/t/kXnOMYgd

http://screencast.com/t/itwKlm2The

[Anonymous]

Yes!!! Very Smooth This is great.

The only issue would be the amount of polygons, how slow will the computer move with this amount of polygons just in details!!

I wish GS work in this to make this curves work better and that the curves are translated as curves and not small segments.

[Steve Jepson]

Here are some examples.

The first one was made in the Profile Manager - the rounded part is as smooth as possible by stretching an edge of the fill with the Curve Edge pop-up.

The resulting Profile is unusable if you ask me. Not nearly smooth enough.

[Anonymous]

That's exactly my problem!

Is there any way to solve or workaround that?