2025-07-09 02:36 AM
I'm currently working on a curved architectural design using Rhino + Grasshopper + Archicad Live Connection. I've already drawn a curve in Rhino and used it as input for a wall component in Grasshopper. However, this only produces a simple upright wall along the curve—basically a linear extrusion.
What I want to achieve is a more continuous 3D curved wall, like the type that twists, bends, or flows in space (see image for reference).
I'm wondering:
What components or plugins do you recommend for this kind of geometry?
Any help, advice, or example definitions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 🙏
Operating system used: Windows
2025-07-09 06:28 AM - edited 2025-07-09 06:29 AM
ahhh wet floor renderings. They never fail!
On the other hand, i apologize for not being able to offer futher help. We could more or less do this kind of stuff on 3d modeling software back in the day, but not parametrically and with a LOT of pain. If it helps, you werent able to do this with a single line; You needed to define AT LEAST 2 or 3 profiles or (splines?), depending on the complexity of form, and then you applied modifiers to join them and make them thicker.
2025-07-10 12:06 PM
If I had this task in Rhino-Grasshopper, I would try to model the surfaces of those Walls. I would probably try to find which 3D curves define the shape, model those in Rhino, then maybe use a Loft command to use the 3D curves as input and generate those double-curved surfaces with Grasshopper, so they can be parametric and when I change any of the source 3D curves, the whole Loft surface would update. Then, by tweaking the shape of the 3D curves, you could achieve the desired shape. Then, when you have that shape in Grasshopper, you could use the Archicad Morph component to generate the 3D geometry in Archicad.
For the Glass panels, the Archicad Curtain Wall component would probably work.
2025-08-07
05:47 AM
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2025-08-07
11:33 AM
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Laszlo Nagy
Archicad is not capable, at all, without using all sorts of gymnastics.
The only architectural software that is capable is Catia.