The Mesh tool or Land, will allow us to create hills, rivers, cliffs, slopes and a variety of natural environments, including complex organic shapes.
Mesh Tool
There are three types of mesh tool: We
It usually serves to create more organic or coverage ceilings. You can download a plugin for this purpose in our top menu for the section HELP, DOWNLOADS DE ARCHICAD then will open a window, there look for the plugin CONVERT SCREEN IN COVER, download and run.
Mesh size and no padding. This means we have the upper undulating surface, but inside we have nothing.It is hollow as a shell.
Mesh surface and filling.Within the grid, everything is a filler, as in natural terrain.
Start drawing a terrain from a map with contour lines:
First we need the plan with contour lines. If we have drawn on other software such as Autocad could be just what we will open from Archicad.
To open the map, what we do is the following:
- In our Archicad Browser tool (which is on the right), we Worksheets, we click on this link right click and select NEW INDEPENDENT WORKSHEET we click Create. If you like Put a name to that sheet work, where it says Reference ID but leave it as is.
- After creating a new worksheet, you create a new working window, and as we see in the Navigator, we are currently within this worksheet. A worksheet is a drawing window, where we will be able to use just a few tools. If we realize and we look to our range of tools, we can only use all the tools for 2D drawing more Objects tool.3D tools, are blocked.
- Now let s put the plane in autocad of contours in the Worksheet created, for which we seek in Windows Explorer, where you are located our background, select and hold the mouse, let s go to Archicad and then to the worksheet, where we are going to drop. When you release the plane here, I get a dialog box asking for the value of a unit for drawing in Archicad can then select 1 meter, a millimeter, etc. according to the units they work with. We generally use 1 meter. Select and click REPLACE. I will get another dialog box and go in search ALL JUMP button and you click it.
- The plan now imported, is a unique object, which we now operate, in order to select and edit your lines, for which Select the plan, we go to the Edit menu, then select sought to reform and within the current view EXPLOIT in the dialog box which appears, select SAVE ONLY drawing primitives.
Our plan will be as shown in the figure below. Note that our curves are just above our point called ORIGIN OF USER (marked with a red arrow).
Referencing the ground and start drawing the contours
Once we have the field ready, we will offer our first in our browser you click on the ground floor. While here, we will reference our Land (which is seen as guide lines), for which we are going to do Worksheet and click the right mouse button and select Display as REFERENCE TRACING.
Thus we see contours, such as guide lines and we will draw the shape of our lot of work with our tool line as seen in the figure below.
Now just let s create a LOT with our tool MESH that have the shape of our land for which we select SCREEN and select the Polygonal drawing tool as shown in Fig.
By clicking on the first node with the mesh tool, we will get a dialog that will ask us to make visible our layer, which accepted and then proceeds to create all our land.Which will default to create a fabric like texture.
The drawing of the ground we have done, is currently flat, and a default thickness of 1 meter. F3 can click and see our property in three dimensions, without contour lines.
Now we turn our eyes on the ground with F2, we select our ground and then we click to open up our definition box within the plan and section tab and look for the box that says PLOTS Envelope and we deactivate it.We left our land and now has no texture.
Now follow the following steps:
1) We select our Land.
2) selected from the palette on the left, our tool MESH.
3) Activate the Magic Wand tool by clicking the space bar and then we click on the first curve that is below standard. We get a dialog box and leave it enabled on new points and SET USER Arista and we click OK. If we now this contour has been added to our land as we see in the picture:
4) That in turn activate the magic wand and repeat the previous step to add all the contours.
5) Now we just need to give high level to each of the contour to form our land.To select only one and we were not selected all the contours, choose the curve between two of its nodes. So simply select that curve. And then we do click here again until a window and choose the symbol that has an icon Z
Will get a window that asks us HEIGHT, in which we put up with that level and also select the table APPLY TO ALL. So do the same with each of the heights, to give them the appropriate height.
Then we have to see a 3D view is like the left figure. If we rotate the field we see that on the sides, there will be some nodes that have been a lower level, we have to go up manually selecting them in the 3D view and uploading them again using the Z icon and entering the height manually or graphically simply dragging above the node.
That s it, if required in our field, viewed in plan, triangulation is not what we do is select the field, go to TABLE OF DEFINITIONS, and in plan and section search where it says Edge select and move there Arista value DEFINED BY THE USER and so our map will not have these triangulations.
If you want the field look smoother, in the same TABLE OF DEFINITIONS, MODEL section, select the right where all the edges SOFT says.
