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Permalink Reply by rhinotutorial on March 12, 2011 at 4:17am

It depends which programs you first made the 2d in. Some programs are completely compatible but otherwise if you are moving between programs which aren't you will always come across some hiccups.

If you want to work with archicad the best advice I can give you is to use cinema 4d and archicad together as they are completely compatible next to that use Rhino which is what I use with Archicad,

I hope this helped!

RhinoTutorial.com

 

P.S

But I don't understand what program do you use for 2d, why don't you simply use archicad to 2d in?

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by pablo paci on March 12, 2011 at 4:51am

Thank you very much for the tip, will try to get the Cinema4D ...and learn to to use
greetings.

I use ArchiCAD to model. is a virtual building program which works directly in 3D, but2D automatically generates both plants and sections and elevations. Specifically forarchitects. However, it has the limitation that you can not make organic forms, so Rhinocould complement it.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by rhinotutorial on March 13, 2011 at 9:27am

Ah ok, well in that case, if you really want to use archicad for the default elevations and sections, with the ability to create organic forms cinema 4d will do that the way archicad was made to do it, 

 

But you can still get plans and sections from rhino too, their 'cut plane' command followed by 'make 2d' will get you plans and sections.

We will be releasing a tutorial on this soon!

RhinoTutorial.com

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Permalink Reply by pablo paci on March 13, 2011 at 12:17pm

OK, Thank you for the data. Basically the archicad file structure to be a BIM program is essential to architecture. Rhino can serve as a complement to organic forms orcinema 4d.
A greeting

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Permalink Reply by pablo paci on March 14, 2011 at 9:48am

Hello everyone.
I regret not having presented before, but in general in the forums, in which I participated, the question was much more personal. So here I felt very comfortable andwelcome.
I'm an architect, Italo-Argentine, and other people settle for an online study calledSynapse Studio (network architecture). From Barcelona and Murcia (Spain), PuertoMadryn, Patagonia Argentina, e Italia.

We are not experts in Rhino, but we try to complement our projects Archicad, withimpressions created in Rhino.

The question of my involvement is that I have trouble carrying the Archicad 3d Rhino,and have tried different ways, but not successful.

Greetings to everyone.
PD. They have been super nice to me, and extremely quick to answer my questions.Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Millmine on May 4, 2011 at 2:14pm

I sometimes save my files as Rhino3 files because many programs are not updated to Rhino4 surfaces yet.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on May 14, 2011 at 10:27pm

Hi Pablo,

 

Sorry, I missed this discussion.  Another option for you to try is IFC (ssiRhinoIFC is a plugin I've developed).

 

I haven't tested Archicad r15 yet, but certainly the import of r14 can be improved.

 

For the time being, nurbs surfaces need to be meshed to exchange, although you can control the meshing tolerance for smoothness appearance.  A good place to start reading on this is here:

http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/2010/11/grasshopper-generating-ifc-...

 

If it's a linear extrusion then you'll be fine,

I have up and running nurbs surface exporting (which is included in IFC2x4 due for release this year) but you'll have to seek from Archicad when they expect to read this (which might be a year or more).

 

I'm happy to help with any advise or improvements that might help. 

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

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Permalink Reply by pablo paci on May 15, 2011 at 7:58am

Thanks Jon.
I need to get this plug in you tell me, how I can get it? There is a place where you candownload to run? This plug in is free? Thank you very much for the data.
Cheers,
Pablo

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on May 19, 2011 at 12:20pm

Hi Pablo,

 

Installation instructions can be found here: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/geometrygym

I recommend you also install StructDrawRhino.

 

There is a free evaluation period of a month.  I do work full time on the development of these tools, so I do rely on licensing their use for commercial work to sustain this.  Licensing options can be discussed once you have started testing.  I am happy to help advise you with getting started.

 

You might also be interested with this discussion:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=35910

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