ArchiCAD 25 Tutorial NEW Complex Profiles Curved Roof in under 20 minutes

today we are creating something incredible something that i've recently used in the real world and something that i wanted to share with you guys so you can go back and create some incredible curved architecture [Music] what's going on guys my name is david thomas and welcome back to the channel today if you can't tell i am super excited about this tutorial we are creating some elegant curved clean lines finally in archicad now i know i do a lot of basic architecture but i really wanted to push these videos to the next level as much as possible so today we're diving in to the complex side of archicad 25. okay diving straight into this tutorial once you have it open we're going to be using the australian select template again like always feel free to use whatever you have available to you once we have archicad 25 open we're going to start the same way we start every other tutorial command 7 or control 7 depending on what system you're on i'm going to insert a new story below i'm going to call that footings like i always do so feel free to skip this section if you have seen it a million times before and i appreciate you if you have 172 mil below in the footings is our slab plus our footing three meters to our ground floor then we're going to create a ground ceiling in this instance i'm going to call it 500 millimeters to the next floor which is going to be our first floor above that we're going to have our first ceiling which is effectively also our roof and that roof will be another 500 millimeters for the purposes of this i'm just going to leave these on to showcase what they actually do in elevations we don't talk about them too much but we'll go into them a little bit today so let's simply click ok let's dive down to our footings layer double clicking on the footings over here jumping across to our slab tool over in the center of the palette so click once expanding all the way across if you hit the tab button it will automatically jump to our dimensions and we can start typing for example 25 000 so 25 meters tab once more let's go 9 000 or 9 meters and there you see we will have our slab created i'm just a bit pedantic in my orientation so i'm going to click ctrl d to allow me to move this slab to more the center of these sections and elevation markers it doesn't really matter it's just me being pedantic now by pressing control and the up arrow we're going to jump all the way up to our ground floor right clicking on footings show us trace reference we can see that we've created our ground slab next we're going to come over to our wall tool walls external outside face generic let's move this down to our 90 ml stud partition simply drawing a line all the way around i'm just going to zoom in to showcase the fact that it's on the opposite side of this slab so by tapping the p button it will automatically flip that wall so that we can hold shift making sure it's perpendicular finish our walls and have a perfect box ready to go going to 3d you'll see that we've started to create our 3d box we have our slab that is slightly low so if we press command t we'll open up our settings and we can see we're -172 to the project zero so if we change that to zero hit okay our slab will increase in height to sitting in line with our walls and then pressing ctrl up and right clicking on our ground and going show trace reference here is where we're going to start the fundamental basics of our curved design now what i'm envisioning is one side of the curve wrapping down falling to the ground and connecting back to nature whilst the other one wraps upwards pointing towards the sky and in turn we're creating that connection from the ground all the way to the sky through elevated elegant curved lines now to effectively do this i'm going to go to our slab tool i'm going to use a generic slab but i'm going to beef it up quite substantially so if we go command t we'll open up our settings again we're going to change the structural composite and we're going to change that to concrete so by typing in the letters i can find my concrete hit enter and i'm going to make that i want to say 300 millimeters for the time but we might revisit this soon next i'm going to click ok and i'm simply going to draw a slab around this whole section here i'm clicking on it once again clicking on the outside edge offsetting all edges and i'm going to offset let's go 1200 to make that an easy concrete cantilever next command down clicking on the external perimeter of these walls if they aren't already automatically grouped alt g will automatically group those walls so you can go control c control up up so you see on this side we move up and down to our next floor and then ctrl v to paste it in the correct space so clicking off that to secure and confirm that we are happy to paste that in that position coming back to our 3d to see what's happening and what is going on now there's a reason these aren't working correctly in this point of time because this slab isn't 500 mil as per our command 7 ceiling grid spacing so what i want to do is click on that slab control d click on one of the external nodes and push it all the way up to that first floor after that i want to select the ground floor walls clicking on the once command t opens up our wall selection settings and then i want to increase the top link to the first floor and make sure that is zero now i can click ok those walls will automatically lift up in line with our walls above going to our ground floor so we can quickly establish what elevation we have to go to to understand how we're going to manipulate our curved facade we can see it's elevation 3 we need so if i right click on elevation 3 open with current view settings and then just expand that so they all go in this top tab we're going to see these dashed lines for starters and this is what i'm usually talking about by unticking all of that information on the side so by pressing ctrl 7 or command 7 you'll see that by simply unticking all of these clicking okay all of that information is quickly going to disappear now some people like that some people don't personally i like to change that information so i untick it but you will keep it ticked for the purposes of this video alright so now we see our elevation and like i was saying we're going to be connecting the right side to the ground and expanding up to the ceiling so this slab protrusion here might actually be pushed back or it might fall back to the ground after that to create a walkway underneath i'm not sure yet so let's start in the center here so we can actually create something a little bit different if you've made it this far in the video firstly thank you so much for being a part of this community it is ever growing thanks to more and more people seeing the videos sharing the videos and most importantly hitting the like button down below believe it or not that like button and that like button alone helps with the youtube algorithm and makes more people see this content and more people hopefully get into the architecture profession or if not better themselves in the architecture profession whilst you're down there don't forget about the links in the description there is one link down there that will take you to my website filled with digital downloads these are absolutely essential for any architecture student any architect or any designer working in the architecture practice it doesn't matter where you're located from australia to europe to america or anywhere potentially in india or asia new zealand the checklist is universal and will help you get better at what you're trying to achieve now i'm going to start this process with a very simple line tool i'm just going to click once holding the shift button pressing the d key and then typing in 2500 gives me the start of my elevated shape that i'm trying to create and curve next i'm going to activate my spline tool clicking on the edge once and simply clicking two more times down to the bottom to create a nice gentle curve falling back to our floating concrete ceiling now that we have the fundamental basic shape created this can work with a million other shapes if you want to create something funky go for your life you can create almost anything your heart imagines we're going to copy these two lines by pressing ctrl c and then we're going to come up to options complex profiles profile manager and we're going to create a brand new profile so i'm going to call that curved up and click ok i'm going to move this just to the side and then i'm going to command or control paste my curved line in the centers perfectly fine clicking ok justifying that it goes there and then i'm going to move the bottom the top of this line to this red x now it isn't really critical if it's the top or the bottom we can manipulate that later but i just want to have one of those points on that x marker now we're going to select this top linear line click click control d then press the control button again to activate the multiplier tool hold shift from memory our concrete slab was 300 millimeters so i'm going to move it 300 millimeters across the spline below i'm going to offset tap control once 300 millimeters so that it offsets at a perfect 300 millimeters from that shape there finally i'm going to hold the alt button to be able to quickly and easily replicate that line tool join these two ends together and then scroll down to find my fill tool holding the space bar and clicking in the center of that line to automatically fill the space now we'll click on that fill again and look up the top here so it says tile floor we're not wanting a tile floor just like our concrete wall we're going to change that to concrete structural and as you'll see all that feel will change it'll become something very different in the final product finally before we finish up here we want to make sure that it's on our wall tool and we click the save button and all we have to do now is click close so let's come back into our ground ceiling now to start creating that first shape the ground ceiling up the top and seeing where our wall is i'm going to go to the wall tool making sure it's on external i'm going to select my curved geometry and instead of having the basic shapes i'm going to change my shapes to complex profiles and select curved up the rest of this we can manipulate as we go along in 3d we're not going to worry too much about all the nitty gritty details and the finer story settings we're just simply going to click on this wall i'm going to extend that let's say 1500 radius and then i'm going to draw a half moon now i know straight away that this is potentially going to be the wrong way around but it's a very simple fix so let's first of all locate it roughly where we want on this building let's say jumping back into 3d we're going to see an upside down concave instead of what we actually envisioned so simply tapping the p button is going to flip that to the perfect space that we want with this selected we're simply going to click ctrl d move it up in the line with our concrete slab and then we're going to click control d again and then we're going to go to our ground ceiling click on the complex profile we've created command d control d whatever system you're on dragging it out to the front of our slab now to remove this section the simplest way is clicking on the slab coming across to our insert new node and repeating the same step for those two sections there i believe that this is where our cutoff is and where it falls away so this is probably the best spot for it clicking once more in the center changing to a curved edge and replicating to the edge checking in 3d that we've done the right thing yes that is exactly where slab stops and our wall starts so that is absolutely perfect next i'm going to click on this these four walls pressing alt g escape once clicking on that wall again to make sure it's ungrouped i'm going to right click it connect solid element operations and it'll automatically set it as the target i'm going to use this as the operator then i'm going to subtract the downwards extrusion and hit execute what you'll see is that wall will be perfectly cut in line with that curved concrete blade so what we've effectively started to do is we've started to create this concave curved structure moving up and i've just noticed that the ceiling below isn't in-field so i'm simply going to click on the edge of that click the plus button and just drag that back there now that is a beautiful first start to this project we are touching and reaching for the sky but we aren't connecting back to the ground so what we're going to do is we're going to come back into our elevation and we are going to simply replicate that same line that we created somewhere over here i'm going to press command e to turn on the rotation tool holding the shift button i'm going to rotate it a full 90 degrees keeping that exact same pattern over here might work really really well then i'm going to return back to my straight geometric shape clicking on the edge and coming to 3d to see what we have drawn we have drawn another curve up which isn't what we're looking for so let's go options complex profiles profile manager curved up and duplicate curved renaming it to curved down pressing okay pressing edit and then all we're going to do is simply press command m to mirror this design and command m to mirror it once more starting from that top node here we don't need that anymore let's click save close and then finally changing our wall from curve up to curve down so there you go now we can press ctrl or command d lower that to the edge of our blade wall and we finally have our wall curving from the ground back up and now we have our blade starting from the ground coming all the way up and then swooping all the way to the sky the fundamental basics of this video have been covered but now we're going to turn this ordinary looking box into something architectural and something magnificent so let's get into that section of this tutorial jumping up to the first floor we are going to right click our ground ceiling show as trace reference selecting our furthest wall control d let's move that back i'm gonna guess here let's go eight meters back holding the control button clicking on the additional walls getting rid of those walls we're gonna see that box jump right back in now i simply want to create a whole glass box down the bottom and a timber floating blocks box up the top so alt g re-link those walls command t let's override the front surface with some vertical walnut pressing okay we have some beautiful vertical walnuts sitting on top of this concrete floating roof coming down to our ground floor we're going to go to our window tool and we're literally just going to make this whole wall one large window so let's start by connecting it dragging it all the way out making sure our node extender is there clicking ok and coming back to 3d to see what we've drawn next clicking on that window extending the height both ways up and down so it is a floor to ceiling glass frame command t control t override object line types click and change to black as you know i hate the orange lines they drive me crazy override pen lines as well you'll see all the changes happening right for your eyes now coming across to our basic window settings we're just simply going to click across until we get to our sashes and we're going to introduce a custom hv grid clicking on our front view so we see what's going on so because this is almost 25 meters long i want to have 24 horizontal separations and i want to have zero vertical separations so it's just that continuous nice glass look i do also want to click on that again control command t and change our model attributes so i don't want aluminium windows you guys know i like black frame windows quickly and easily changes all of them pressing ok coming to our ground floor zooming in holding alt so we can easily replicate that on this side of the wall and selecting the window control command d sliding it across repeating that step on both the side elevations and changing the amount of mullions depending on the length of the wall okay so there we have a full glass bottom box we have our concrete curved wall a concrete curved i'll call it a roof and our timber box above i am going to simply just drop in a concrete roof above it's not going to be anything special we're not going to work on it too hard but just so from a practical point of view you would know there is some sort of actual roof above so coming back to our first floor going to our window tool and selecting our window somewhere in here we have the starting of our window that is obviously way too many mullions for what we need i am going to extend the window as a simple 500 millimeter highlight and extend it to our curved up wall now i don't want that many transitions and that many mullions in this window so ctrl t again coming up to our sash options and let's change that to half of what we usually would have so five gives you a very premium luxury looking window repeating that on one more side up here on the left and there we go now we have our architectural foundational base that we can take into twin motion render out we can create a floor plan interior we can create an upstairs living space bedroom sleeping quarters we can do anything with this design if you do want a copy of this archicad file it is available to all patreon members through the links down below it'll redirect you to the discord group chat where you'll have exclusive private use of the all access area and you can download this file whenever you want to keep working on it anyway that's all for me today guys thank you so much for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it i genuinely do hope you learned something new and are going to take this into your own practice into your own architecture and create something unique and truly special if you did make sure you smash that like button down below like i already said it helps with the algorithm it helps me know that you enjoy this content and want to see me create more if you do want to see more of this content make sure you also subscribe to the channel because every single monday i drop a new video be it an archicad tutorial or something technology related usually within the architecture space but like i said that is all for me today so thank you so much for watching and like always i'll see you next monday

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Length: 19min 20sec (1160 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 25 2021