ArchiCAD Tutorial #36: Custom Empty Openings in ArchicAD

[@Avisale]

Dear, i dont understand the step since minute 5:35, how you fix the hole in the wall? i cant see the change in the slab. Thank you

[@Shoegnome]

You need to have two slabs, one with the ID of Wallhole and one without. The slab with the ID of Wallhole will define the hole in the wall.

[@Avisale]

Shoegnome Thank you!!!!

[@jelenamiletic]

Thank you, I really needed this! Great video

[@mateod5278]

i have a wall, i need to cut out a costume shape and project it out. how do i go about doing that? also where is the shape id located on archicad 19?

[@Shoegnome]

+mateo diaz if the technique in the video doesn't work, try cutting a whole in the wall with a beam. The beam will need a building material with a priority higher than the wall (and the elements need to be on layers with the same intersection group number). The beam will cut the wall whether it is visible or not. I'm not sure what you mean by the shape ID. The ID has not moved in 19.

[@Olivierstreet]

Hi and under which tab exactly is the "ID" found?

[@liliasohn1399]

hi there, I'm working on archicad and i was wondering if you can help me. I am trying to make a free form column using a morph tool (the columns have a look of an organic cell structure) the problem that i have is that i want to make those "cell" openings that are constraint in their sizes as well as not going through the whole column as a cutout. when i try to draw on a morph object that is curved i can't seem to subtract it without making a cutout through the column or making a uniform depth even since its curved. the reason for the cutouts in the column is so the cutouts will be a different material (lit with LED lights behind the cutout cell) Anyways basically i have no idea how to make my vision of columns in archicad. I would appreciate a some tips of how to make it since i haven't found any tutorials on this subject. thanks in advance

[@Shoegnome]

Instead of starting with a morph start with simpler elements. Use SEO to create the holes. Then once you have the shapes you want, save it as an object or convert it to a morph if it requires some more tweaking. The morph tool is great, but often it's best to use other tools to create the starting geometry.

[@liliasohn1399]

Shoegnome thank you for a tip, very helpful!

[@kat.0112]

Hi, Can we put an object into the niches, made like that, f.ex. door from the library?

[@Shoegnome]

+kat.01 I'm not 100% sure what you mean. But you can make new niche Objects. If you need to put a door into a niche, I would make the niche, then put the door in another small wall that sits in the hole made by the niche.

[@kat.0112]

+Shoegnome hm... It doesn't work, I have a wall with niche and I need to put a door into a niche but only in a part of it. So a wall, huge niche in it and small door at the centre of the niche. I tried to make a niche with a hole but it's still not it. But thanks a lot for Your help :)

[@Shoegnome]

+kat.01 sounds like you might need to model the niche as walls.

[@kat.0112]

+Shoegnome Do You have any tip how to do that? :)

[@Shoegnome]

+kat.01 just put an empty opening in the wall then model new walls within the opening.

[@mIKEAleph1]

Great! Thank you!

[@bestmedever]

Thank you so much!

[@univers3d26]

Thank you !!!!!