Creating Complex Profile Offset Modifiers in Archicad Walls
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
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00:00 Introduction to Wall Composites vs Complex Profiles
02:25 Changing Composites and Profile Settings
03:45 Note on PERFORMANCE!!
05:30 Sample Wall - EIFS with Furred Interior
06:13 Capturing Composite Structure in Profile Manager
07:30 Nominal Width = Stud Member Width
08:30 Adding Thickness Modifiers
11:40 Testing Modifiers for Errors
12:30 Fixing Errors by Adding 2nd Skin Face
14:40 Testing New Modifiers - SUCCESS!
15:25 Performance Check
15:45 Adding More Modifiers
18:30 Modifiers in 3D View
19:20 Creating Vertical Offset Modifiers
24:45 Reviewing Vertical Offsets in 3D
26:00 Order of Operations Best Practice
26:45 Additional Samples for Footing Walls
27:45 Final Thoughts - Thanks for Watching!
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I swear to God this the best channel to learn about archicad.
Awesome glad you like the channel! Much appreciated
Welcome 🙏 back. Please remember the tutorials for the Google Earth and ArchiCAD.
I give you a standing ovation! Thank you for sharing your knowledge on this topic!
Thanks Alex for the comment. Glad you liked it, make sure to check out my other video on the complex profile with water table, it builds on this one!
Great new tutorial! Thank you for posting a new video 🙏
Welcome Back John！ So nice to hear your voice again!
Thanks it is great to be back! Another video dropping tomorrow!
Really good stuff John! Thank you for putting this together. This is something I have not sued much but now feel better about wanting to use the entire BIM for 3D detailing, etc.
Nice to see you creating again! I had no idea complex profiles were that flexible, so thanks for the demonstration.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you found it useful.
Dear John, welcome back. :) And thanks a lot for this tutorial, great work as always!
Yeah been using this a lot with ledges. Great video quite precise. 👏
Thanks! Glad you liked it and are using it!
Love that material for the stud and insulation. I have always wanted to make one, but still just use a solid color.
great tutorial. A few days ago I started exploring this functionality and this tutorial will help me a lot. Thanks!
Glad it helped!
❤ perfect thank you
Hi John! Nice to have you back. One thing that bothers me with complex profile walls are the wall caps (for example if you need to offset in height the walls or make a step in a wall). The ends are never good and can't be solved with the wall cap tool. So you need to make a complex profiles for the finish with the shape of the previous profile.
Cheers John. Really interesting and very clear tutorial thanks.
Thanks Chris glad it was helpful!
s and a couple EDM and Dubstep goals for myself, and I guess I better start learning sowhere. Thanks for the great vid!
Excellent tutorial, thank you 👍
You are welcome!
Great! Thanks
thank you sir ❤️
welcome back and thx for nice sharing 👍🏻
Hiya John❗️ Welcome back… but where have you been⁉️ 😳
Nice Tip on Linking 🔗 different elements to adjust vertically simultaneously or separately 🥇
Also, you clarified that clicking on the corner of an element skin and then on the top or bottom surface is correct as I was wondering if this was the right way to do it 🤔💭
Cheers from Laurence DownUnder 🇦🇺 ✏️ 😉
Thanks for the comment! Much appreciated emoji action! ☺
Wonderful lesson. I've been using ArchiCAD since version 6.5, how I could have not known about this? Just shows how you can get stuck in the ways you were taught and the practices and standards of offices you've work in. I have so many questions, but will start putting this to use right away. This lesson has solved some major frustrations I have had since moving to ArchiCAD so many years ago.
Thanks for the comment! I’m glad we helped open the door for you to profile modifiers! We have a few other videos on them as well. Word of caution, the more modifiers you have in a profile, the slower the performance, so use with caution!
@@CONTRABIM I’ll look at the other videos before I asked a big question that’s rattling around my brain.
Another awesome video, thanks!
With all these functions built into Archicad, why is the construction industry so set on using Revit. Archicad is much happier place to be!
Hi Ray. Yes it definitely seems as if Autodesk had a better rollout plan to take over the commercial side. I remember back in the day when I was working at a large contractor, Archicad was the first choice for BIM. That is when VICO Constructor was a thing... Graphisoft should have hammered there solution and marketing better back then, and perhaps the industry would look different today. Autodesk capitalized on their Autocad in-roads to Revit conversions, but I agree Archicad is a happier place:)
I was using Autocad from the early days and switched to Revit before Autocad bought it. I’ve been two years trying to switch to Archicad, not enough hours in the day.
@@hurforddj
Stick with it, the juice is worth the squeezing!
Think of it as similar to Sketchup, where you interact more directly with an object - the Revit way is more detached from the model I find
Nice to see you again, John. Apart from performance issues, I think this workflow is very flexible.
A little off topic. But, I'm curious how you set up your pen at 5:33. This makes the pen sets very powerful.
I also can't wait for your another tutorial video on Archicad 26 update. Cheers!
Hi Nielson thanks for the comment and question! I'll have to do a tutorial on the pen set which is my own custom creation, for better or worse:) Most common used pens are mapped to specific pen numbers, making it more predictable their color and thickness on the layout version. I do like working in color during modeling, as the color brings out additional info on materials/surfaces etc..., but it's nice to have a plan for how they should show up on layouts, either thicker and darker, or thinner and lighter, or remaining a color. I hope that sheds a little light on it! Thanks
@@CONTRABIM Archicad's default pens are currently created and categorized for specific design tools (Walls, Columns, Beams, etc) and materials. Which, in my opinion, is not really practical. There are so many elements in the construction, and I don't think the current built-in Archicad Int pen is enough for that.
Can't wait to see your approach and insight regarding this subject :)
You make a great job 👍🏻 Can you make a tutorial with the the roof eaves and the intersections between wall an roof in this video?
Yes I'll definitely do some more videos on eave detailing. Having the offset modifiers on walls definitely helps with this!
absolutely brilliant! question: what PC specs do you have?
Hi,
In many of your videos I have seen different elements (kitchen eq. or sheet metal profiles for roof edges) or whole assemblies (like in this video) layed out as a catalogue of pre-made parts. So I assume these catalogues are meant to be accessed to grab a part and inport it in your project. My questions are:
1. where is this catalogue located, or where are the elements/assemblies stored? Are they stored in the template file, are they favorites or something else?
2. how do you organize these databases so that they are easily reached when working on a new project?
3. how do you access a catalogue item, modify it so it meet your current project needs and save this item back into the catalogue as a new item?
4. how do you make the catalogue un/updatable (so that you update a composite with a complex profile like in this video to have more control in future projects) but at the same time have the option to freeze finished projects so that the updates in the catalogue do affect realized projects in which case the updated part would not correspond with the realized project.
Many thanks and keep up the good work!
Hi Rastko! Thanks for the question. I store the catalogue of parts within the template on a pinned renovation status. I have several of these renovation "Working Views" that contain different groups of elements, depending on what scope I'm modeling at the time.
This way they are easy to modify, and can always be duplicated, changed, and tested within the current project and template while being immediately accessible for use. And since they are all placed and viewable, you can better test out pen set changes, graphic overrides, layer combos all while viewing side by side with your project.
To view only your project, you simply turn off that renovation status.
I hope that makes sense, I'll do a video on this here soon!
@@CONTRABIM Aha, okay. I have seen this in your video: ruclips.net/video/9D3DDo9GY8c/видео.html
Thank you for your anwser. I would be really interested to know why did you decide to use the renovation functionality to achieve this goal. I assume you made kind of a hack where you used a Archicad function developed specifically for renovation purposes to serve your needs which don't have anything to do with renovation but allow you to access your library, correct?
I think this method you are developing solves one mayor problem of Archicad that new users struggle with and it has to do with over-concretisation of design elements in the initial (drafting) stage which is (and has to be) as abstract as possible to achive a good architectural typology/concept/layout. I remember using Archicad as a student and I liked the auto generation of drawings from the 3d model (efficiency) but got really anoyed when I had to define all too numerous attributes of a window or every other element. I got bugged down with too much detail and realised that I still loose time despite the drawing auto generation. So I switched back to CAD. Today, working in an architectural office and witnessing the limits of CAD and seeing the benefits of BIM (like schedules concurrent with design) I'm le-learning Archicad. The method you are developing seems super useful for someone in a similar position like me. Please make the video as simple as possible. I would be interested if you explain why you use the renovation function (why is it originaly made for and how you use it), how you make an item in your library (or where is it stored. I assume it is stored in another file, correct?) and what are the relations between library items and their clones in your project (are they update-able from lib to project, does it work also the other way around, or is there no relation btw. them).
Thanks again!
Another great tutorial as always, I guess not everyone can afford the time to do this type of detailed modeling, but I love to do it if the clients budget allows. Good stuff, keep it up mate. P.S. your schedules are good, just wondering if you can illustrate how to work on those 'expression' formula/ properties to automate normal residential works. Thanks.
Thanks for the comment Qing Luo, much appreciated. Yes I'll definitely do more expression formula tutorials soon. Thanks for the suggestion!
Amazing tutorial! inspiring as well, I may finally get to produce details from the model! really exciting.
I have a couple of questions:
- Do you know what's the difference between composites and complex profiles in terms of quantification? From AC26 I believe it's possible to export the quantities of each separate material in a composite what I guess it's still not possible with profiles?
- Curious about how you set-up your material to show the insulation and the framing
Thanks!
Thanks Carlos for the comment and question! Composites and Complex profiles quantification (on the component material schedules) work exactly the same. Main thing is to ensure the complex profile has the center line method turned on, so the program knows how to measure the area. Building material priorities and operators work on both. I'll have to check into the AC26 functionality on materials. Have not gotten into it yet as I'm preparing for a big launch next week. More on that to come!. Also, the framing+insulation is just a surface texture with wood stud and insulation set to 16" width.
Another great practical tutorial. What will the performance be on a big and complex project using the complex profile method, or is it only really an issue while making the adjustments?
Thanks Zjaan for the awesome question! The performance is most noticable while actually editing the elements, and not so much when simply displaying in 2d/3d views. When editing, I have noticed that the fewer elements on screen, or in 3d window, does have a positive effect on speed. Having the complex profile option is great in select cases where a composite structure won't do the job, but whenever possible i'd say it's best to use the composite structure, especially for larger complex projects. Thanks and great question!
Graphisoft should expand the Offset Modifiers engine to work with GDL libraries in a similar way how Revit uses reference planes for parametric family creation.
Yes it'd be nice to have the ability to set dimensions. I'm hoping the library part maker will be enhanced to be able to created objects with parametric features similar to offset modifiers, but saved into the objects through LPM. Thanks for the comment!
@@CONTRABIM Yes , the library part made should do that. In fact thats what I thought it does the first time I heard of it but I was very disappointed after seeing it in action
Super tutorial as always. Super useful. By the way, i am very puzzled by the "wood board + insulation" or the "wood board + air space"surface. How do you do that?
Thanks for the comment and the question. The Stud Cavity Space with/or without insulation is just a surface texture that helps represent the contents within. So it is just an image with stud and insulation, and it's set to 16" width in the surface settings. Hope that helps explain it!
Can you share how to make custom label (skin thickness) for complex profile? I made some label (include skin thickness in my list label) but it doesn't appear in my label because its complex profile. Thanks, i hope you answer it
Hi there! Sure we can do a video on labels. The skin list label does work on complex profiles, but in order for the skins to be listed, they must appear as part of the floor plan cut. If they are below the cut plane they will not appear in the skin list label. If you change the height of the profile to the cut plane, you will see it populate. If you change the floor plan display settings, you'll also see the label change as well.
offset modifiers are very useful but how do you represent surfaces especially in plan view. Surface painter doesn't work properly in 3D view
Thanks for the comment! 2d view is all about the material cut fills. If your skins are not being cut, you may have a limited option for showing materials. The surface painter will override complex profiles similar to the surface overrides in the info box, definitely some limitations there. Best to change the material/surface settings for fast control, or to modify in the profile surface overrides.
Great tutorial! I have problem that I dont have all of this modifiers. Just four in my list. Should I upload from somewhere or create somehow. I have just base depth, width, flange and web thickness.
Hi Vasilije, you can download a few sample profiles that include these modifiers from this blog: www.contrabim.com/blog/exterior-wall-with-water-table
My intention is the create a wall with a stone faced base of 4'-6" then transition to wood for the remaining 4'-0" from an existing composite wall. I searched your library but can not find a video that shows how to create a complex profile. Do you have this type of video? Thank you.
Hello, thanks for the comment! I'll add that to a list of topics I'll tackle here on the channel. It's pretty simple, simply create a complex profile, or capture a composite that is similar, and then split the exterior skin into the wood and stone finish. You could set an offset modifier to the boundary between these two fills, so that you could adjust the height if so desired later.
Hope this helps you along!
How about tubular complex profiles?
My friends like and make these walls with the commercial logos of the respective material?