Easiest Tool for DRAWING WALLS in Blender - The Archipack Draw Walls Tool!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about Archipack in the comments below! :)

[@healthycorner395]

Hi Justin, How to set up a door with certain distance from a wall? How to change a color (inside, outside) frame and door?

[@stevensimister8521]

Just bought the pro pack and struggled with the tutorial by Stephen (he went too fast). You brief walkthrough was glorious! Please do more on Archipack....

[@PlagueRavenRX]

Criminally under-viewed tutorials you have, man. A+ easy-to-follow, clear and concise instructions. 👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

I appreciate that!

[@vikentijslauruts2153]

best archipack wall tutorial on internet thanks man

[@geoffhodgson2492]

Hi Justin, absolutely brilliant! I spent ages trying to figure out the disconnect/ re-connect issue and then I found this tutorial which I'd missed for some strange reason. Thanks again. Geoff

[@FinalMotion]

wow thank you so much!!! the official documentation is pretty vague, so thank you so much for just giving a good basic overview/"How to" for getting started. Thank you!

[@kurtsburbsblurbs3909]

I'm new to archipack and this video was extremely helpful in getting me started. Thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andreamacor4135]

GREAT! Fantastic Tool. I'm switching from 3dmax (bleah) to Blender and this software is very very very...very....no words.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Interesting - let me know how you like it :)

[@andreamacor4135]

@@TheCGEssentials I find Bblender very user friendly.There are many things that are done with much more simplicity and intuitiveness compared to 3d max. Recently I could see how it can handle a 3d model imported from ProEngineering which for 3dmax 2021 is very heavy, but Blender handles it as if they were few polygons. (I have a rtx 2060 super) Model takes 5 minutes to open in 3dmax, Blender opens in less than 10 seconds! The scene has around 4000 objects for a total of 12 million polygons. The only thing I would like to have is the implementation of Corona render because I had been using it for years and I had practice and familiarity. But you should never stop learning new things, even at the age of 47!

[@SydwellDebha-bm7lq]

Very Nice explained and Thank you.. So much for this video And You everyday update if there is something new 🔥

[@lz4090]

Nice. Please make a series on this with the new versions. Thank you

[@sheermagic]

Thanks. Great video. How do you add a second floor?

[@stevevawter7417]

Can we be expecting a start to finish architectural design using blender? even if its paid for..struggling going from Sketchup to Blender and you are the man when it comes to tutoring!..

[@TheCGEssentials]

I suppose that depends on what you're trying to achieve. Since there's not really a good way to actually create/print plans from Blender, it's somewhat limited

[@stevevawter7417]

@@TheCGEssentials Yes. Looking more for concept visualization (and to learn blender in the process)

[@brunolibano6513]

I like your videos very good explained. Thanks.

[@ddettore1]

Hello, I was sent this video by Stephen Leger, I notice this drw walls is different from the video you did creating walls with wall, etc... difference in this video is you draw walls - in both videos you do windows and doors. the first one i watched had glass in the windows and doos this video the glass is not there... I wonder what was different in your settings... I can't get the windows to show as see through in either case ... any chance you may know a setting or two I can check to see why my windows are not transparent?

[@applebiteanimation6448]

Really good videos!!! I am new to blender and with these videos and plugin I learned to build a house in a day. Of course, my flow was not as smooth as these videos but hey, I'm new. I am wondering if you have more advanced videos on this plugin. After completing the rough of my house, I have been trying to export it to have it work in other software. Primarily iClone 7. Where I can get the house into iClone, I am losing the roof textures and holes in the walls and roof where the house cuts in or extends out. I have read about applying boolean and triangulating but I must be doing something wrong. I have so many more questions but know this is not the place for that so... if you have videos that are a little more advanced, please point me to the URL. Your videos are really good in helping me fast track through Blender unlike others that go so fast I can only get bits and pieces. Thank you! 👍👍

[@mikevanderhulst3235]

Really great and helpfull video thnx. I just can't get my head around creating an inner wall. It won't snap to the outer wall. I have set both incr. & vertex snap.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Also turn on edge snap

[@Constantinesis]

This is on my wishlist! I'm curious can you edit a wall mesh in more detail after you created and still maintain its parametric features or you basically would need to bake it or "apply it" for that?

[@amorenva]

How can you fillet corners in ArchiPack? Thanks a lot!

[@arsitekchannel]

Great!!

[@brunolibano6513]

Hi wich os the link to buy it. Thanks

[@Constantinesis]

Can you create your own preset components for doors, windows, etc?

[@FMDev1]

Hey Justin (and other fellow achipack users!). I am using the newest version of AP on a mac. I cant seem to figure out how to restart drawing a wall as you are demonstrating about 4 minutes into the video. Holding the 'ALT' key (option key for a mac) is not resulting in the restart of drawing the wall. Anyone know how to do this on a mac?

[@FMDev1]

AH! Figured this out for whoever else might be having this issue. If you have 'Emulate 3 Button Mouse' enabled, this function wont work. If you disable this function, then it works correctly. To disable, go to Edit > Preferences > Input and under the Mouse dropdown, untick Emulate 3 Button Mouse.

[@muckachu]

When i try to add a 2nd wall by pressing (A) the 2nd wall flips into the 1st wall and does not extend... it gets placed inside the 1st wall grrrr

[@FaizanShakeelKhan]

Hi, I am new to blender, do u have a tutorial for materializing it? thank you

[@TheCGEssentials]

I don't know what this means

[@eggwardosteve]

Any reason that clicking draw wall doesn't give me a preset option?

[@basspig]

One problem is that when snap to grid is enabled, I can't make perfectly orthagonal walls. They are about 1 degree slanted off 90 degree angles. The other problem is when I add windows and doors, it doesn't Boolean the wall.

[@minadesign4295]

You have to click the wall and use boolean (using Archipack) on the wall rather than on the windows or doors

[@chbo682]

I try to use this tool but I keep getting an error message. Has anyone solved this pro problem?

[@SirJorasminChannel]

How to the measurement like cut and so on as on screen..? 😭

[@henriwind5473]

Thanks alot. Not getting into the "drawing" menu after quitting it made me furious.

[@giuseppeloi6717]

ciao justin archipack pro e veramente interessante rende tutto piu semplice ,posso costruire su piu piani grazie

[@strangnet]

So far, quite an unintuitive tool. As soon as I try adding walls with different widths using the draw wall tool, it puts them on random z height. Incredibly frustrating to try to work with. Your video helps somewhat, but the tool needs to be simplified. After more than an hour I still choose the wrong arrows when setting the angle between two walls. Luckily it's not that much money if I won't be able to grok it.

[@hex8387]

Did anyone find a solution to the wall creation python scene_ray_cast error? It's literally driving me nuts. I have 2.3.3 and Blender 2.93

[@demoness2005]

I have that problem too when I attempt to draw walls. I have the same versions as you. So I'm hoping someone can help before going to their tech support.

[@inoyu4031]

had the same problem: use blender version 2.8x and it should work.

[@DezitaAlvarado]

I had the same problem, I just uninstalled and installed again!

[@damnmonster9856]

its not cutting holes in walls in free :|

[@xxerbexx]

useing feet should be a crime xP

[@TheCGEssentials]

Nah :)

[@xxerbexx]

@@TheCGEssentials i honestly forgot why i wrote that, or if that was a typo. the heat makes me delusional xP

[@meridiancentral]

Sometimes I think the same - it's so much easier to figure halves, proportions, etc in metric. But then when I try to imagine spaces in meters (I'm in the US) I'm lost, so I sometimes switch between the two in the Measurements panel. I get into heated arguments about metric/imperial with my friends.

[@basspig]

Archipack is not free. It's $59 and the sight asks for a credit card.

[@TheCGEssentials]

There's a free version and a paid version. I literally linked to a page that shows the difference AND talked about it in the video...

[@basspig]

@@TheCGEssentials The one included with Blender is useless. I've spent over an hour trying to create a simple building, but it just doesn't want to respond in reasonable ways. There's apparently no update path for the built in version.

[@TheCGEssentials]

@@basspig Sorry it's not working for you I guess. I've found the free version to be pretty workable. I've found Archimesh to be much harder to use than the free Archipack version