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Double curvature, ideally solid

I need to model these funky precast panels and use them in ArchiCAD. I am told they are not hard to model in Sketchup, but that they will get all messed up when bringing them into ArchiCAD.

So would the C4D add-on be the only way?

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Anonymous
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Hello Ignacio,
Could you model one of these precast panels with the mesh tool
and save it as a library part, and rotate it to the vertical ?
Just a thought.
Peter Devlin
TomWaltz
Participant
I think Peter is right: model them as a mesh lying down, then save it as an object and stand it up.
Tom Waltz
Yup, that is what I am doing while I try to come up with a better plan. But I suspect it will not look very good with the mesh.
Peter wrote:
Hello Ignacio,
Could you model one of these precast panels with the mesh tool
and save it as a library part, and rotate it to the vertical ?
Just a thought.
Peter Devlin
Anonymous
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Hello Ignacio,
Why don't you think it will look very good as a mesh ?
Is it because you think it has to have ridges ?
Meshes and MASS commands don't have to have ridges.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin
Peter wrote:
Why don't you think it will look very good as a mesh ?
The geometry of the thing is freaking impossible, I just spent 1.5 h on it. Either I spend two days ArchiCAD-drafting the descriptive geometry exercise with a bunch of auxiliary planes on the sort-of-paraboloid-like faces and then trace the resulting contour lines with the mesh, or I dumb it down and it will look clumsy.
Anonymous
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Hello Ignacio,
Hmm... I did not know it was so complicated.
Sorry for the suggestion.
Peter Devlin
Do you have ArchiForma? There are some surface tools that might be able to do the job.
Richard
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Richard Morrison, Architect-Interior Designer
AC26 (since AC6.0), Win10
Peter wrote:
Hmm... I did not know it was so complicated.
Sorry for the suggestion.
Thanks for the suggestion! I would not have tried so hard had it not been for the suggestion, at least not at the start. Now I know that if I go the way of the mesh I should aim for some approximate resemblance only.
Aussie John
Newcomer
One thing for sure is Antoni Gaudí never used ArchiCAD
Cheers John
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