Roof Tool - Barrel Vault

[Vitruvius]

I've just started on AC 10 and am creating a barrel vaulted roof.

I was kind of hoping Graphisoft would get their act together and allow us to eliminate the interior lines - this tool still behaves like something out of 1996. Is there a way to turn off those lines?

[Rob]

you are right mate, it still sucks in AC10...

[Thomas Holm]

Vitruvius wrote:
Is there a way to turn off those lines?

You mean like Maxonform?

[Vitruvius]

No, not like Maxonform.

I'd like a smooth barrel vault which displays like an ArchiCAD curved wall - ie. its not rendered like a bunch of segments.

It should be sooooo easy for GS to fix this longstanding LAME implementation.

Please GS...

[Chazz]

Vitruvius wrote:
I'd like a smooth barrel vault which displays like an ArchiCAD curved wall - ie. its not rendered like a bunch of segments...It should be sooooo easy for GS to fix this longstanding LAME implementation.

Still lame but here is how I did it on a huge house with 10 barrel dormers recently:

1) use very small segments (magic wand settings)
2) set the internal segments to a white pen.
3) set the outer most segments to a printing pen
4) use a ring-like part from the basic shapes in the Library for the facia.

This way it is possible to get something that looks OK in plan and section/3d

Total hack........

Lots of people will tell you that SEO's are the way to go but then you never get it right in plan.

[Anonymous]

One option is to not use the roof tool and build it using profiler and solid element operations...

[Aussie John]

Can you use the V10 profiler of the wall tool?

[Richard Morrison]

Vitruvius wrote:
No, not like Maxonform.

I'd like a smooth barrel vault which displays like an ArchiCAD curved wall - ie. its not rendered like a bunch of segments.

It should be sooooo easy for GS to fix this longstanding LAME implementation.

Please GS...

Okay, try this:

Draw a curved wall. Save as a GDL object, carefully selecting your viewpoint so that it is created from a "plan view" of the future roof.

Place object. It will be nice and stretchy and take maybe 30 sec. to create, once you understand the process.

[TomWaltz]

I posted this thought somewhere else today: Any reason why you could not make a Profile out of that, then draw it with the beam or wall tools?

[Dwight]

Or what about the parametric primitive "Conoid?"

Great name.