Roof and sloped terrain (Help a student in trouble :-))

[Anonymous]

Greetings to all ArchiCAD users.

I'm an architecture student and my latest task is to draw a house in ArchiCAD. However, I've been ill for the last three weeks and I've missed nearly all of my ArchiCAD-classes. Hence, my drawing skills are way below the level they should be to complete the task.
The problem is that the semester lasts for only one more week and I have to finish till next friday otherwise I lose a year.
In a "normal" situation I would ask for a tutorial or some little advice but I simply do not have time now.
So I'm IMPLORING someone to help me with drawing this task.

I'll attach an image of how the house looks (I apologize for the size of the picture) and I've also opened a website with additional images (plans and sections) which are useful for drawing. The address is www.geocities.com/hakerpepa

I'm particulary troubled with the sloped terrain and the roof.

I know I'm probably asking too much but considering the situation...
I also believe that to someone who knows how to work with ArchiCAD this isn't much of a problem to draw.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Srdan Gajic

[Thomas Holm]

Mark, the guy isn't after help in doing it himself. Not until I saw his reaction to the advice given, i realised he just wants someone else to do the job. I wouldn't want to hire a guy who gets his grade this way. The only advice left is to tell him go take this class some other time!

[Anonymous]

Come on, Thomas, don't you see I was kidding? I am very grateful for every advice I get, I just cannot get a grip on such a complex and unknown program in such a short time, having in mind that I have 4 other tasks to finish this week...

I'm sorry I didn't thank you for your (useful) link on how to create the sloping terrain but that was still having troubles with the roof. I must be awfully stupid or something but I just cannot draw the damn roof. I was going through ArchiCAD help a couple of times, but I just can't figure it out. How can I draw the gable wall?

Can someone PLEASE explain me step by step how to draw the roof?

[Djordje]

Srdan wrote:
Can someone PLEASE explain me step by step how to draw the roof?

That and more explained here:

http://www.graphisoft.com/archiguide_archive/

More precisely, here:

http://www.graphisoft.com/archiguide_archive/ArchiGuide_Online_6o/issue15/roofs.html

Once you have the roofs in, place the wall to the top height of the roof, right click on it, select Trim to roof ... done. Best in 3D window.


Don't you have a Tutorial CD?

[Anonymous]

as far as the support column goes, I made it very easily using truss maker. I created 2 "trusses" rotated them 90 degrees to each other, grouped them, and placed them in the second storey, under the centre of the roof and used SEO to trim them, it looks OK.. I think, if you want a more detailed explaination of how I did this let me know.

HTH,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

maybe you can see it better from this..