How make a street in
ArchiCAD 21
[Link]
A
rchiCAD is a software for Architects made by Architects, is
a slogan that from the beginning has marked the
development of its tools. And although ArchiCAD is an
excellent program for modeling our buildings, modeling the
environment where they are located is important, especially when
our designs are developed horizontally and not vertically. That is why
we often need to design access roads, an issue in which we are
extremely limited.
Although there are external addons such as Architerra that enable the
creation of roadways as a user I have always sought to model
everything with native tools. My workflow included manual modeling
using meshes and solid operations.
Now in the new version 21 the handrail tool is introduced, which
revolutionizes many conceptual aspects since it makes it possible to
use complex profiles in longitudinal paths, a mixture of wall and
beam for their behavior and is an opportunity to test their application
in the modeling of Streets.
The workflow is as follows:
1. Create the street profile, use construction materials to
distinguish the materials that participate in the pavement
structure.
2. Configure the railing tool using the profiled rail type 21, use
your street profile. The node made invisible and delete the
segments leaving only the rail. The height values of rail and
rail width set them to 0 and disable the visualization of the
fixings.
3. Now trace path of street with lines and you create the path
of the street on the floor. In 3d view you can also do it. I
recommend that you use 3d lines created with form to place
vertical control points, these points you occupy in the 3d
view to create the vertical deflections that your street
requires.
4. If the visualization in plan is not correct, consider creating a
3d view in plan and create a 3d document, or convert the
rail to morph. I keep in a dedicated layer the original railing
and make a copy that I convert to form, this helps to
prevent future changes.
5. Now active groups, select the shape elements of the street
and activate the 3d view with that selection. I correct the
type of edge to hidden. This helps improve the view on the
floor. I also adjust the visualization of the elements in the
floors. Depending on the level of the street some elements
are below the current floor and you have to adjust your
visualization in [Link] my case Show on stories = Home &
One Story Up.
6. If you have sections in curve check the tip of the route and
make sure to solidify the elements.
7. Use the search tool to find the elements of the street by
surface to fix your construction material, as the materials of
the original profile change to generics as soon as you
explode the railing.
8. Now uses schedule to report the quantification of [Link] this
example occupy components by layer.
9. If you want the classic report by station. Creates a section
perpendicular to the aligment of the street. Set Horizontal Range:
Zero depth and Use the original reference axis line and use multiply,
spread ajusting spacing of stations, and use Pick Path before input,
rotate to Path. This is new option in AC21. It’s a very cool option.
10. Adjust the stations that you consider necessary, and modify the ID
of the sections with the nomenclature of distance. In my case 0 + 000
11. Create a list of items. In List fills and objects included in: select
Viewpoints and select Sections – All. In properties & parameters –
Global elements Parameters Select:
Building Material / Composite / Profile Name
Surface area
Story Name / Viewpoint Name
Components = None
Descriptors = None
Library parts = None
In List Format change to Text List and use this order.
01 Story Name
02 Building Material
04 Surface Area
12. Now open each section and change settings > Status of Section
View > Drawing.
With this change the elements change to Fills.
13. Generate list report you can save this report as file txt and open in
Microsoft Excel.
Conclusions:
Conclusions:
Archicad is a program that could have tools to design roads,
workflow, code, its workability makes it ideal candidate for that.
Although we do not have dedicated tools we can generate efficient
quantifications if the challenge of having to model the environment is
presented to us.
I live in Latin America and the developers, designers and builders
demand such tools since it is not enough to design a building, a house
or a condominium. I believe that having such tools would increase
and strengthen sales in places like mine.
Advertisements
Report this ad
Report this ad
