Drawing composites

[Anonymous]

I am drawing some cabins made of wood, that consists in the following layers,

wooden boards
horizontal wood ribbons every 60cm placed in a vertical layout
vertical wood ribbons every 60 cm placed in horizontal layout

My question is if I can create a composite which one of its layers will be formed by the horizontal or vertical ribbons(beams or pillars in archicad) placed in vertical or horizontal layout arrangement.

[Barry Kelly]

Composite walls will only create skins (layers) in a wall that are solid in 3D (they can be a transparent building material for cavities) and these skins will appear as a fill in plan and section.
It is not possible to create the actual timber components that form the skin.

A complex profile wall will allow you to create the horizontal components, but there is no way to do the vertical components in a complex profile.

You would need a 'wall accessory' (and the wall accessory add-on) to do the vertical timbers if you want them linked to the wall.
There is a post here somewhere that has an option to do custom profiles for a wall cladding that may help - I will see if I can find it.

Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

This is the post I was thinking of.
not sure if it will help.
You may need a combination of a complex profile wall with the horizontal members and this accessory for the vertical.

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=58432&p=274740#p274740

Barry.