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Set standing seam locations - Roof and Wall coverings

Anonymous
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Can someone help me to set the locations of the standing seams on a roof and wall covering please. They are regular spacings but I need to be able to offset them from the end a certain distance
thanks
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Lingwisyer
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Just a query, how are you modelling you standing seams?



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I use the roof panel object .....
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Karl Ottenstein
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Searching the forum with the Search function at the top will show years of discussion of this topic. The Accessories have not received any development effort during that period (they are officially unsupported):

Duane Valencia gave the first solution / tip many years ago:

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=21019#p21019

More recently, Carsten gave a tip for 3D alignment:

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=284327#p284327
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