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Complex profile - Archicad Tutorial
From the course: ArchiCAD 22 Essential Training
Complex profile
- [Voiceover] Now let's take a look at another attribute: the complex profile. So, basically, complex profile are 2-D drawings that we can extrude using walls, beams or columns, so let's see how it works. I'm going to create a new wall here and instead of choosing generic or composite, I'm going to choose complex profile and I'm going to choose, let's say this belt ledge here. So, I can draw a wall as if I'm drawing any other wall. I can even do curved wall. And let's select this element and check it out in 3_D. So, I'm gonna press F4 in the Mac or F5 in the Windows, and as you can see, Archichad has extruded that shape following along the wall. So, it's really good for you to do details in your facade or in your interior elevations. But you don't have to stick to one building material only. You can actually do complex profiles that use multiple building materials like this wall where we have a beam here in the top. But let's delete this and see where we can do a useful complex…
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