another "how do I do this in ArchiCAD thread"

[Anonymous]

Out of supreme boredom (my bosses are out today ) I'm trying to see just what I can get ArchiCAD to do, as I've never really pushed it very hard, and I was wondering how you could create a nice detailed ribbed vault resultant from the intersection of a ceiling arch and the arched opening from clerestory fenestration in gothic architecture... any takers?

Cheers,
dan

[Anonymous]

After you, Daniel.....

[Anonymous]

I honestly want to find a way to do this, even if it doesn't have all the detail work.. if I get some time today I'm gonna fiddle around a wee bit, and see what I can do. I'm thinking that you could draw the clerestory dormer, and then a cylinder for the ceiling vault, extrude the dormer through the vault and trim at the intersection line, that would give you the exterior, and then ... well.. then I don't know

cheers,
dan

[Anonymous]

Daniel wrote:
Out of supreme boredom (my bosses are out today ) ... any takers?

Cheers,
dan

i would love to be a taker of the bosses being out. i can't get anything done over the pile of papers on the desk.

guess you gotta love it.

[Anonymous]

Except the inevitable "day-after" they were out yesterday, so I got only half of what I needed to do finished, and now today im working twice as hard to make up for it

[Djordje]

Daniel wrote:
how you could create a nice detailed ribbed vault resultant from the intersection of a ceiling arch and the arched opening from clerestory fenestration in gothic architecture... any takers?

Try roofs ...

Also, take a look at the standard library and vaults in the Primitives folder.

If you want the full mass above, you can SEO all of the above from a slab.

Been there ... 😉

[__archiben]

i seem to recall herbert peter showing a whole series of models of vienna's(?) chapels and churches that he'd made for a research project once. all very detailed . . . arches, vaults, friezes, etc . . . i googled but couldn't find any information. anybody?

~/archiben

[Steve Jepson]

I would make the arches the same way you can make anything you want.

Do what ever you need to do to find the curve of the arch. Use the profiler to make it, rotate it in 3d as needed, save as a part, place in drawing. Repeat. Add new parts to old ones, so on and so on.

This should be not trouble at all.

[Anonymous]

In simple words, you cannot make it in realtime.
My only tip for arches is use walls and empty doors or windows.
That way you can at least modify some portions of the structure.
Creating the gdl way is good only if you know 100% what you are going to do.

Sculpting in Archicad is not possible. But ofcourse if you have reached a final form and you want to sculpture then maxonform is the way .

[Steve Jepson]

oreopoulos wrote:
In simple words, you cannot make it in realtime.
My only tip for arches is use walls and empty doors or windows.
That way you can at least modify some portions of the structure.
Creating the gdl way is good only if you know 100% what you are going to do.

Sculpting in Archicad is not possible. But ofcourse if you have reached a final form and you want to sculpture then maxonform is the way .

if you cant make it in real time, make it in pretend time.
The arches are not difficult to model with ArchiCAD. You don't need to use some other program. You could use a little SEO if you want to sculpt some of the parts. You don't need to know anything about GDL to make them.