TWO videos on Complex Profiles
Tonight I recorded two videos.
Making these videos reminds me of how I first learned ArchiCAD. I spent a fair amount of time sitting behind one of my coworkers, just watching him work. It was very enlightening. And as I rewatch my videos, I notice a bunch of little techniques that I take for granted, but are probably as enlightening as the main focus of the video. The first video doesn’t discuss everything about complex profile creation, but it covers what I feel is one basic, one intermediate, and one advanced tip (the white dotted line trick). The second video takes some of those techniques and applies them to creating a complex profile stair. Both the videos ran a little longer than I was expecting, I think one is 7 minutes and the other is 9 minutes. Adding screencasting to my repertoire is definitely a process, so maybe in a few months I’ll find myself rerecording these original videos so they are more polished…
Either way, expect more videos and more talk about Complex Profiles. Watch all my videos and subscribe to Shoegnome’s new YouTube Channel.
ArchiCAD Tip #3: Complex Profile Creation techniques
ArchiCAD Tip #4: Complex Profile Stairs
Craig Headrick
Jared:
Great videos. Very helpful. I have what may be a very simple, fundamental question about door schedules. We use a schedule for arches and cased openings where we use a legend on plan that ties into the interactive schedules. Unlike other schedules where the front (3d) view is part of the column to show the door or window in elevation, we aren’t able to show arches in the same manner without literally drawing them in 2d. Is there a method of showing the arches as 3d objects in a similar method that doors and windows show on our schedules? Any ideas would be very helpful.
Thank you in advance,
Craig Headrick
Jared Banks
At the moment I don’t have a good answer, but I’ll think about it. It would probably be more work, but maybe you could make custom openings / door objects?
What objects are you using to create the arches and cased openings?
Rosa Carter
Great video!!
Chad Conrad
Jared –
Great videos and things that I may have not considered but will start to implement into my ArchiCAD workflow!
Jared Banks
Thanks everyone!
Bill Szustak
Love the tip on using the line fill for stairs. It made me think of one question, though…why don’t you show the complex profile of the stair in plan, and then instead of using a line fill where the are stairs ARE you use a blank white fill to cover the area where the stairs AREN’T?
Jared Banks
Bill. Thanks. Good question. A couple of reasons. The complex profile will look right in plan if you use the wall tool, but not the beam tool (and I’ve started experimenting using the beam tool for this). Also as you get more into using this trick, it’s easy to start adding other things into the complex profile (bits of wall, the landing, etc.). In that case you’ll start getting extra garbage on plan. So that means showing the complex profile will work most but not all the time. In the cases where it will show up correctly in plan, the masking fill you suggest would work. But then you have to deal with whether the fill has contours or not, how those contours overlay with other walls, display order, having the masking fill covering something below that you want to show, etc. Since using a fill to cover up the CP still requires 2 elements (stair + fill), I’d rather hide the stair and not have to mess with overlapping objects. Though I do see that by showing the stair at all times, there’s less risk (ie, no risk?) of having the plan and section out of sync.
Carlos Nicolini
Great stuff, Jared! Thanks a lot for the tips.
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