glazed roof

[Anonymous]

is there a tool for creating a glazed wall which becomes a glazed roof?
see attached sketch. see right-hand side of house.
i drew this as a line drawing.
thanks
jonathan

[Thomas Holm]

Curtain wall tool. You can tilt it to roof appearance.

Edit: Sorry, not in AC11. But you can hunt for an object, use an add-on like Archiglazing, or make an object yourself, or just build it with ordinary roofs.

[Mats_Knutsson]

bell63 wrote:
is there a tool for creating a glazed wall which becomes a glazed roof?
see attached sketch. see right-hand side of house.
i drew this as a line drawing.
thanks
jonathan

Hi Jonathan,
Long time ago, I hope all is well!
There are several ways. As Thomas said ordinary elements work great. I bear in mind I did a similar thing with Solid Element Operations many years ago.
One mesh minus a mesh and a few slabs/roofs and bob's your uncle so to say.
Regular roofs and walls are surely the easiest way.
From AC12 you use Curtain Wall for all these kinds of things and more.
Mats

[Anonymous]

tack för dina svar!
då få jag lära mig den nya verktygen/curtain wall.
(& uppdatera min profil till V13 och adress till kanada efter 30 mars...)
jonathan

[Thomas Holm]

bell63 wrote:
tack för dina svar!
då få jag lära mig den nya verktygen/curtain wall.
(& uppdatera min profil till V13 och adress till kanada efter 30 mars...)
jonathan

Jonathan, you might want to check out
this page for a Curtain Wall tutorial :
http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/ac12/new-features/

another:
http://www.cadalyst.com/aec/archicad-curtain-wall-archicad-insights-tutorial-3774

and on creating custom CW frames and elements, this thread:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=28549
and this excellent guide:
http://www.cadconsult.co.nz/CWALL_Guide/CustomCurtainWall.pdf

this page for improvements in CW editing in AC13:
http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/marketing/ac13/nfc/08/08.html

And this page for more modeling exercises:
http://www.graphisoft.com/education/training_guides/

CW examples:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=26743&highlight=
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=24782&highlight=
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=142702#142702
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=24538&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

The forum search is your friend, as is this special search page:
http://archicadstuff.blogspot.com/

[Anonymous]

thanks for putting so much effort into your reply for me thomas!
i've been 'dreading' learning this, but these tutorials look great.
i'm always impressed with archiCAD, it seems the more complex things get, the more the software shines.
yours
jonathan

[Thomas Holm]

bell63 wrote:
thanks for putting so much effort into your reply for me thomas!...

No problem. I knew it was all there, I just had to collect the links. And there is more to find, just do a search of your own!

[Anonymous]

You can also use an object called Sloped Curtain Wall (or what is its name in english). In AC11 it is in basic library between structures.