Wall Accessories - Mouldings & Panels

[Anonymous]

I am using the Wall Accessories - Mouldings & Panels to model a wall with two different siding treatments. The Wall is specified as a Cedar Shingle and the Wall Accessory is a Base Board with a 8'-1" Height and a Material of Horizontal Siding. All is well except for the ends of the wall. The Molding or panel adds an extra little piece at each end.

[Anonymous]

Screen shot with Wall accessory, before Code Changes for wainscot and wall Panel.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, i didnt test it with gables. Ill get right on it, i know how the code will need to be in order for it to follow the gable

edit: Try to do a trim to roof to see if that will work for now. the SOE code is tricky

[LiHigh]

Well, since GS never come to rescue, I guess I'll fix the bugs for our own sake!!!!!!!!

FIXED:
--Moldings and panels now joint properly
--Connection work right now on Curve walls

The process is too complicated to explain here. I may as well post the revised version here for everyone to download. However, there are still some problems in it. I think that GS should reponse to these ASAP.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
edit: Try to do a trim to roof to see if that will work for now. the SOE code is tricky

I tried it with a "Trim to Roof" wall, still no gable. I am fine for now using the object with the simple "+0.5" added to the ref_thickness in the Cutting Bodies section of the 3D Script that LiHigh recommended.

LiHigh wrote:
Well, since GS never come to rescue, I guess I'll fix the bugs for our own sake!!!!!!!!

So now that there are a few different people (non from GS) providing fixes to this part, which object is the on to use......?

Thank you both LiHigh & Matthew.

[Anonymous]

Jay wrote:
So now that there are a few different people (non from GS) providing fixes to this part, which object is the on to use......?

Thank you both LiHigh & Matthew.

Hi Jay,

Both parts wors fine for me. We are between users trying to help each other, without GS help, so nothing is "official".
Each change on complex scripts like these ones, needs a lot of testing. Please, be indulgent. Try both, and select the best for you.

I can only thanks Matthew and LiHigh for their excellent work.
Still so much to do to have a "decent accessory".

Come on boys, keep on the good work.

[Anonymous]

Another problem with the wall accessory that I keep having is the interior walls that intersect the wall with the Accessory are "cutting-out" sections of the wall panel.

My workaround has been to temporarily "pull-back" the Intersecting walls before create the wall panel. This seems to work, but then sometimes after a regen of the Exterior section view the "cut-out" re-appear. I delete to accessory, pull walls back and recreate accessory.

[Greg Kmethy]

Dear Talkers,

I diligently recorded the bugs mentioned in this thread, but I beg you to please use the official channels (your ArchiCAD dealer) to report bugs. We sometimes drop in here for a little bug-hunting, but the only way to make sure bugs are corrected is to report them to your resellers.

Thanks,
Greg

[Djordje]

gkmethy wrote:
Dear Talkers,

I diligently recorded the bugs mentioned in this thread, but I beg you to please use the official channels (your ArchiCAD dealer) to report bugs. We sometimes drop in here for a little bug-hunting, but the only way to make sure bugs are corrected is to report them to your resellers.

Thanks,
Greg

May I also stress the point that you SHOULD send in the Bug reports when they rear their ugly heads? Fill in all the data required, especially waht happened before the crash, and send them ... they do go to the right place!

[Anonymous]

Whilst this topic is still near the top of the pile, I thought I would add a further query.

It seems to me that Mouldings and Panels accessory 'object' has a fundamental limitation that needs some re-thinking: more often than not I would like to use this tool to add skirtings ONLY. As far as I can tell, this is not an intuitive process because it seems that there is no 'option' to do this: one has to set other parameters to either very small dimensions or to zero!

Perhaps the genius code re-writers out there (including those at Graphisoft) could address this particular issue?

BTW I have taken up this matter with my re-seller during a recent visit - he took 10 minutes to find a workaround!!

[Anonymous]

If you really wanted to you could go into the parameter script and make a check against the value of your option (listed in the params list... well call it thisOption) and react to it based on it value

if thisOption were a boolean variable a script might look like this but with the correct variables set:

If thisOption=1 Then
parameters skirtings=1
parameters thisProfile=0
EndIf

and of course the appropriate code to change and hide values to get your goal accomplished would go in that and then the reverse code. Hope that help, i can provide a real example if you need it.

EDIT: I thought that perhaps i should add, that i have sent in a full report to Graphisoft concerning all the bugs listed within this thread, bugs found while i made and accessory based off of the moldings and panel accessory, and the wishes for a more dynamic interface.

-- Matthew Peychich