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?

[Richard Morrison]

TomWaltz wrote:
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?

I just tried this. Only issue is that top & bottom materials are hard to control. (I don't know if it's a bug, or what, but I could only get the end materials to change.)

[Anonymous]

Dwight wrote:
Or what about the parametric primitive "Conoid?"

Doesn't that require the consumption of mass quantities? But I don't think they'd like being called primitive.

[Link]

Can you use the V10 profiler of the wall tool?

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?

Using complex profiles doesn't eliminate the problem. You'll still get a segmented profile [Edit: in shading mode], even if it does have less segments.

We all hear what Cameron is saying though, and what the common wish is - GS give us true curves for all the tools in ArchiCAD!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Yes please. Been trying to build a curved walkway with a sloping roof butting up to a curved wall. Ended up just doing it with lots of small controllable roof facets. Not perfect but good enough for now.

[Link]

Yes please. Been trying to build a curved walkway with a sloping roof butting up to a curved wall. Ended up just doing it with lots of small controllable roof facets. Not perfect but good enough for now.

The Mesh to Roof add-on wasn't suited to the task? Still nowhere near as good as true curves though!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Hadn't thought of that. But this is my result - about 12 facets between each pair of columns, and reasonably easy to edit at junctions with other roofs......

[Anonymous]

S t u a r t,
Why didn't you use the mesh tool to make this kind of roof ?
(see attachment)
Also, how did you hide the edges of each of the 12 rooflets ?

If you don't mind me asking.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

Oh I see the shape you were trying to create now. Yes, Mesh to Roof is probably not the best solution there - too many planes.

A simple mesh would have done the job, like Peter said, although I doubt it would have given you very good material texture control.

If only it were easier!

Cheers,
Link.

[Vitruvius]

Thanks for the input - seems the consensus is that this tool doesn't work!!

I experimented with the various fiddles and I think the 'wall fudge' suggested by Aussie John wins. Attached is a complex profile wall with an opening inserted. I'll still have to create a custom opening with sill/head perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel to it but as a fudge it works.

Note that on the AC Barrel Vault the segment lines don't appear on the fascia - so GS has halfway addressed the problem. How about taking this one over the finish line GS?

Cheers.

[Anonymous]

Peter,

I hadn't thought to use the mesh tool as I have found it difficult to manipulate in the past (although I am getting more familiar with it), and hadn't realised I could curve the edges to get the shape I wanted. Now I know, I'll give it a go!

Thanks for the heads-up.

EDIT: Ah, but as Link points out, texture control will be an issue (asphaltic shingles, really need to have them follow the roof plane).

(And I had simply shown contours "off" in the OpenGL 3D window)