chimney

[Anonymous]

Hello!
I am using Archicad 9 but i am beginner so please dont be offended with this request.
I am drawing a wall. Lets say it's THICKNESS is 50 cm.
Now I want to make a chimneys in it (different size).
I want them to be seen on a plan view and section view also, that I will be able to print those two.
Best regards
Mar

[Anonymous]

s2art wrote:
I haven't tried it but could you use a composite for the flue, with two outer skins and a cavity, that is the same total width as the wall adjacent. If composite's skins are set to same priority as the wall (with a different priority for the cavity) do they clean up?

OK so I tried my method, and it works, just with a couple of lines added in 2D. If materials are the same on inside and outside face there should be no line at the juction on the elevations either.

[Anonymous]

Here is a way that does not involve any 2D fills or lines
and it looks correct in 3D.
The dashed lines in the attached image are for clarity.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

Good job Peter, you've successfully worked around the workaround!

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:
Good job Peter, you've successfully worked around the workaround!

Cheers,
Link.

Good job but still many "ifs"

And what if there are many flues next to each other?
What if the chimney wall is not rectangular but square?
Best regards
Mar

[Link]

Well you can use the same technique right?

Cheers,
Link.

[__archiben]

dpistons wrote:
And what if there are many flues next to each other?
What if the chimney wall is not rectangular but square?
Best regards

this workaround is fine for cast concrete fireplaces/chimneys. but what is your chimney going to be constructed from in real life? you don't get massive blobs if it were brick, for example....

to quote the master of BIM methodology and semantics:

"build it like they build it except when you can't"

[Laszlo Nagy]

David wrote:
Or you could use the polywall and then use a column with an empty fill to cut the holes. Columns cut walls by default. Hide the layer the col in on in section and you only see the wall and the cut.
Just another approach!!

I like this.
You can even place the Column with the empty fill on a layer that is defined to be wireframe. If you make its view lines the same as those of the Wall, nothing will be visible in 3D and the Column does not have to be on a hidden Layer.

[Aussie John]

My vote is for the column solution ( good tip David). Easy good way to put a recess into a wall.
Maybe an object saved as a column type and using the tube command would give a flue which changes direction.

[Aussie John]

On a related note a wall will knock out a any part of a beam element which passes through it regardless if the wall is visible. If the intersection priority is set low on the wall - the wall will knock out.

Good for rebates in a wall although doesnt appear to recognise holes in the beam

[Anonymous]

This column solution is pretty slick.
You can have the flue change directions
by inserting angled column segments
and straight segments so that you have
the way a flue often is built into a chimney.
Peter Devlin