[Chao Lan]

Hello everyone, first time posting topic here.
i am a student study at Vic uni Wellington ,NZ. i am designing a building at moment. my idea is creating different shapes of clear windows(or holes) on a piece of wall.,anyone how to do it? thanks a lot

cheers

Chao:)

[Archi User 77]

Look here

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Creating_custom_windows?highlight=%28TechNotes/%29%7C%28%E2%80%A2+ArchiCAD+10%29

[Chao Lan]

that's lovely,thanks friend.

[Laura Yanoviak]

There's also quite an assortment of openings available in the AC Library. I can't post a screen shot, but they are located in the 08 Doors-Windows 11>Windows 11>Openings 11 folder of the USA library.

[Chao Lan]

Thanks downstair friend. i am trying to create a piece of wall with lots of openings,with different angle and different shapes, maybe some triangle openings but different directions.
i think using the GDL is the best option for me.

i will paste my ugly design later.

cheers,
chao

[Dwight]

Creating wall openings as windows is not the easiest or fastest way to make design experiments with wall openings.

For non-critical work, using an SEO combined with a Complex Profile Beam is faster and more adaptable to play and study than a fully-developed window object with WALLHOLE script.

For experimenting, I'd be taking any given wall intended to receive openings and place a matching glass wall within it.

Then I'd place a custom profile beam within the wall [perpendicular to it].

The custom profile can be any shape, but it is best merely to define your opening frame as in the illustration attached.

The beam is the operator on the main wall in the Solid Element Operation [SEO]. The glass wall is revealed. Don't make the beam a wireframe layer - keep it solid to show the window frame.

SEO works to the extent of the shape, so the entire hole is cut out.

When you edit the complex profile shape, the opening updates accordingly.

[Erika Epstein]

Oooh Baby!
Nice tip Dwight

[Dwight]

Yet another of those accidental coincidences that actually has a use.

[David Collins]

The profile manager in all of its manifestations has to be the single most important new feature since Version 8.1. There is no end to its uses and the list of old problems that it solved. Best of all, it is completely and quietly integrated into the overall interface and has none of the flakey add-on feel of some other new "features" we've seen in the past. And bless them, they resisted the marketing temptation to stick it in as a new icon on the tool box, like the mysteriously useless "worksheet tool."

On the other hand, perhaps that's why so many people are completely unaware of it's existence. Even new users who make a serious study of the manual are unlikely to realize its huge potential. It's almost as though Graphisoft created a fully integrated graphic GDL tool and then forgot to tell anyone about it. Or didn't realize themselves what they'd done?

[Dwight]

I agree that the Complex Profile is a wonderful addition and largely unexplored. I was quick to study it since most of my Archicad work is hypothetical and sculpted - objectives requiring early GDL adoption and any new modeling trick Archicad could offer. Once it could, in Archicad 11, finally do a curved wall, it was bliss.

So many kludgy tools like the Profiler can largely be eliminated, even though the Complex Profiler is Retrograde - allowing modeling without object descriptions and therefore defying the strict BIM "everything-is-something" regimen.

All it really needs is to extrude an undistorted shape on an incline and it is complete.