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Anonymous
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Maybe,is better 2d drawing in archicad,because you dont need to redrawing for 3d, but i insist, that ONLY for 2d drawing face of the project,autocad is faster,even for a non expert user.Simple interface ,basics commants for 2d.
In the 3D-modeling stage, it is sure that Archicad is the king.


Anyway,it is just an opinion.
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SeaGeoff
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Geoff Briggs
I & I Design, Seattle, USA
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Anonymous
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Hey,

I was wondering if it is possible to put some “design intent” (I’ use Pro/e professionally) in your ArchiCAD model?

By “design intent” I mean things like:
-To constrain a wall on the first floor in such a way that it stays on top of a wall on the ground floor when this last one is moved.
-To constrain a toilet to always stays on the midpoint of a wall, even after it is stretched.

I was browsing trough Archicad the other day but didn’t got that fixed.
I am a novice by al means so…
Any ideas?

Grtz,

GZE
Anonymous
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In AC 10 just creat the wall as one entity covering the necessary stories and movement is automatic.

Lew Bishop
Jon Worden Architects
G5 Dual 2.0 4 GB nVidia 6800
OS X 10.4.7 AC 10 966
Anonymous
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Thnx for the response...

And if you want a wall on the first floor that is parallel but with an offset of one meter from the wall on the ground floor.

grtz,

GZE
Anonymous
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Are you wanting to place an independent wall? If so, turn on the ghost story and place a new wall relative to the one on the story above(or below) as this highlights what you wish to do and allows for placement of a same or totally different assembly that is parallel via the selected modifier in the pallet that has the coordinates. Alternative: Copy the wall from one floor to the clipboard, go to story in question, Paste wall, Move wall required distance. Since the wall placed parallel (coincident to) the original a move away is a straight forward move. The tracker and guide lines can set the direction and distance.

Lew Bishop
Jon Worden Architects
G5 Dual 2 4GB nVidia 6800
OS X 10.4.7 AC 10 966
Anonymous
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GZE wrote:
-To constrain a wall on the first floor in such a way that it stays on top of a wall on the ground floor when this last one is moved.
-To constrain a toilet to always stays on the midpoint of a wall, even after it is stretched.
These are not possible in ArchiCAD as you describe them. As Lew points out you can use a multi story wall and it will remain aligned from floor to floor since it is a single entity. This is not really what you are asking for.

This sounds like a set up for a comparison to Revit which is fundamentally based on such relationships. This can be a mixed blessing. The relationships can cause problems as well as prevent them, and as the project becomes more complex so do the relationships.

ArchiCAD is only beginning to incorporate such explicit element relationships. Otherwise it is up to the user to manage them. In your wall example the simple way to maintain the relationship between the stacked walls (and floors, roofs, beams, etc.) is to simply use the marquee tool to stretch/move them as needed. What I like about this is that ArchiCAD is only doing specifically what you tell it to and not making changes based on complex relationships that you may or may not remember.

In the toilet example you would have to drag it back to align with the wall's center point, but it is hard for me to imagine why stretching a wall would commonly require a toilet to move. Toilets are most often set to a distance off a side wall or centered between toilet partitions.
Scott Davis
Contributor
Matthew wrote:
but it is hard for me to imagine why stretching a wall would commonly require a toilet to move. Toilets are most often set to a distance off a side wall or centered between toilet partitions.
Didn't you just answer your own query? If toilets are most often set to a distance off a side wall, does it not make sense that if the side wall moves, the toilet would also move to preserve the set distance? If toilets are centered between toilet partitions, a relationship established that keeps the toilets always centered also makes sense. If a partition moves, the toilet will maintain it's centered relationship.
Scott Davis
Autodesk, Inc.

On March 5, 2007 I joined Autodesk, Inc. as a Technical Specialist. Respectfully, I will no longer be actively participating in the Archicad-Talk fourms. Thank you for always allowing me to be a part of your community.
Dwight
Newcomer
Just to chime in:

While I don't see the universal applicability of it, a toilet object COULD have outrigger nodes and be GDL scripted to be stretchy just as requested.
Dwight Atkinson
Anonymous
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Scott wrote:
Matthew wrote:
but it is hard for me to imagine why stretching a wall would commonly require a toilet to move. Toilets are most often set to a distance off a side wall or centered between toilet partitions.
Didn't you just answer your own query? If toilets are most often set to a distance off a side wall, does it not make sense that if the side wall moves, the toilet would also move to preserve the set distance? If toilets are centered between toilet partitions, a relationship established that keeps the toilets always centered also makes sense. If a partition moves, the toilet will maintain it's centered relationship.
These are possible after a fashion in ArchiCAD (as Dwight points out), though not in the same fashion as Revit's relationships. I think the relationships are a good idea in principle as long as they don't become so complex as to be unmanageable. Automatic functions are what make building models useful. They are also what make it dangerous.
Anonymous
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hey guys don't mean to ask such weak questions, but i was just wondering if anyone knows how you would go about cutting a sections through a building and when i open the section/elevations window; is i possible for the materials that are labeled on the floor plan to pop out with leaders and the materials you used on the floor plan or a generic text something to get you started. I was wondering if that was possible and how is it done.