kid Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 I need to make a flight of stairs which are not a simple rectangular shape. It needs to be a trapezoid. I was hoping I could just split them like splitting a slab, or trim to a wall, but they just don't work. There has to be a way to create a stair that is like this, or atleast a way to trim it down to such a shape!? I dunno about this Archicad program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plastic Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 archicad 8 has a boolean tool. it can simply subtract the wall from the stair. with archicad 7 there is no way i am aware of. i did advanced stuff like this in 3dsmax, before rendering. archicad's strenght is the parametric and simple modelling. there are many limitations, but for 99% of architectual geometry this approach allows much faster working than with a more advanced modeller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 you can trim many objects to the roof object in AC 7. I tried the stairs, and they aren't one of them, sorry. paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted March 14, 2003 Author Share Posted March 14, 2003 OK. I'm using archicad 7 at the uni but I've ordered a student version of archicad 8 for at home. Hopefully it comes with some manuals, so I can stop bugging you guys :angeuhoh: The problem I'm having is that our design lecturer is making us use archicad and art*lantis because he's entering the projects in a student competition. Most of the students have some knowledge of archicad from last year's CAD class but I was given an excemption from the class, so I have to learn it in the next 3 weeks. I'm finding it pretty easy to learn and it's great for simple rectangular stuff, but it (version 7 atleast) seems to have some big limitations. I guess I could just drop a rectangular stair in, then edit it in Max, and not tell my lecturer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris koehler Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 you could easily model your staircase with the "create stair using selection" command... so just draw some fill witch represents the irregular 2d shape of your staircase and a (grouped) "line of travel" in the floorplan and call the "create stair" command from the "tools" menu! works fine for me... greets, chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris koehler Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 @kid (and of course everyone else if you have further questions concerning archicad you can simply ask me, and i´ll do my best to answer them... we pretty much use it [archicad] in our architectural office for everything from modelling to construction drawings. yeah! ...and today the new 8.0r2 version arrived at our door, great enhancement done since 7.0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted March 19, 2003 Author Share Posted March 19, 2003 hey that works great. thank you! Great to have you around Chris. I'm pretty new to Archicad so expect to see a lot of questions in this forum from me I've read on Mac's version 8 is much much slower than version 7, I assume that's not the case on PC? I should get my student version of version 8 very soon [ March 19, 2003, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: kid ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris koehler Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 i don´t have any mac around here, so i can´t really compare! but in win-xp the speed is quite ok, and about the same compared to archicad 7... but watch out! don´t use ac8.0r1 if you can avoid that one, it has some serious 2d redraw problems and the usual bugs of release1 versions! r2 is still not perfect but much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted March 20, 2003 Share Posted March 20, 2003 Originally posted by chris koehler: you could easily model your staircase with the "create stair using selection" command... so just draw some fill witch represents the irregular 2d shape of your staircase and a (grouped) "line of travel" in the floorplan and call the "create stair" command from the "tools" menu! works fine for me... greets, chris thx chris, I'll have to give that a try! paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar R Posted April 30, 2003 Share Posted April 30, 2003 I don't get it.. can someone please post an example or some how to screen shots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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