how can I rotate the wall in 3d ??

[Anonymous]

Hi ...

how can I rotate the wall in 3d ??

and where can I find 3d rotate

[Laszlo Nagy]

Achille wrote:
Laszlo, can we place windows at the "Shell"?

No, only Skylights can be placed into Shells.
The Skylight Tool has been reworked and improved to work well with Roofs and Shells. It will also have its own Dimension Marker and MVOs. It is also displayed as true vertical projection just as the Roof/Shell it is placed into.

[Achille Pavlidis]

laszlonagy wrote:

Achille wrote:
Laszlo, can we place windows at the "Shell"?

No, only Skylights can be placed into Shells.

Only skylights?! Thats a huge limitation.

[Anonymous]

Lazlo you are probably sick of questions. I am sure we will all find out soon enough when it ships. So no doors or windows in shells. Ouch.

Now I'm suspecting the 3d planes only allow certain elements to be placed? For instance can I create a non orthogonal plane and draw a wall and then place doors and windows in it?

Similarly can I place objects on these planes?

If not...I'll be gobsmacked!!!

[Laszlo Nagy]

That plane in 3D is actually called Editing Plane.
By default it is a horizontal plane and it is shown at the base height on the currently selected tool.
So if the Wall Tool is the active tool and its base height is set to 3000 mm then this horizontal editing plane will be shown at that height.
The fact that this editing plane can be set to any position in space does not mean that now we can place any element in any plane.
The two element types that can be placed in 3D at any orientation are the Curtain Wall and the Shell.

On the ArchiCAD 15 product page you can view the 3D Interactions videos and you will get a pretty good idea of what the editing plane is about:

http://www.graphisoft.com/products/archicad/design.html

[TMA_80]

laszlonagy wrote:
No, only Skylights can be placed into Shells

So, we can consider the shell tool as a "freeform roof tool" then 😉...

[Laszlo Nagy]

TMA_80 wrote:

laszlonagy wrote:
No, only Skylights can be placed into Shells

So, we can consider the shell tool as a "freeform roof tool" then 😉...

Yes, it is true that the Shell tool is most closely related to the Roof tool.
However, its geometry has much more capabilities. Not fully free form, but quite capable.

[Anonymous]

Wow. I am still shocked.

The "gotchas" might be worse than I thought.
That only the shell and curtain wall can use non orthogonal workplanes is like missing 101 in modeling.
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I think I will refrain from any more comments till the software ships