archiforma

[giza]

it is not related directly to archicad but i don't know where to address for archiforma, it would be very useful if archiforma addon could have the option when creating path extrusion from profile, the ability that when you draw it on AC you do it with different line pens so that after you create this object you can assign different materials to each color pen (which is object part after you create the object) similar to trussmaker

[Balazs Simonyi]

giza wrote:
it is not related directly to archicad but i don't know where to address for archiforma, it would be very useful if archiforma addon could have the option when creating path extrusion from profile, the ability that when you draw it on AC you do it with different line pens so that after you create this object you can assign different materials to each color pen (which is object part after you create the object) similar to trussmaker

Check out http://www.cigraph-store.com and http://www.archiforma.com or you can post a Private message to Fabrizio Diodati (http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=341) who is the software development manager of Cigraph Factory Srl.

Balazs

[Karl Ottenstein]

giza wrote:
it is not related directly to archicad but i don't know where to address for archiforma, it would be very useful if archiforma addon could have the option when creating path extrusion from profile, the ability that when you draw it on AC you do it with different line pens so that after you create this object you can assign different materials to each color pen (which is object part after you create the object) similar to trussmaker

I'm sure that Fabrizio will be open to your wish. 😉

Instead of the one-step process that you describe, ArchiForma 2.x does allow this, but after performing a separate extrusion for each component. Set up your combined profile with different pens as you wish. Extrude each color pen along the same path with the appropriate offset so that the result fits together as a whole. Assign each extruded part an ID that describes it. Select all of the extruded parts and click the Save button in the AF palette, and AF will automatically create a parametric object with parameters for the material for each component, and an appropriate preview image. 😉

Karl