How to Create "GHOST EFFECT" Graphic Overrides in Archicad 24

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How to Create "GHOST EFFECT" Graphic Overrides in Archicad 24

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Learn how to create Ghosting through Graphic Overrides in Archicad! This effect is used all the time to highlight scopes of work in both 2D and 3D views within the CONTRABIM Templates. Learn how to set it up in this video!
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@michellemarques2670 4 жыл бұрын

GO is one of the most incredible tools on Archicad. As usual, always loving your videos, my friend. Great samples :)

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michelle!

@Brkdmrcn57 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing tips and hints!! I admire the idea of ghost!! I used for vertical circulation for stair!! It works perfect!! Thanks a lot!!

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful Burak!

@FedeWP Жыл бұрын

This is incredible! Thanks a lot! If you can give us a walking through some tips on the "ghost" parameters would be awsomee! Again, thanks a lot for your videos!

@CONTRABIM Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, glad you found it useful. In the past I used a glass type surface, but now with AC25 Graphic Overrides, you can just pick a color in the G.O. Rule and set whatever transparency you'd like. So you don't actually have to create a surface like I did with AC24 version. You can also turn off the contours in the same step, which will ghost it out even more! Sometimes those contours are nice to see tho...

@conmes3077 4 жыл бұрын

great tutorial @John 👍🏻 well done 😊

@conmes3077 4 жыл бұрын

Ghost and amazing is a big different 😜 i like it, easy and very helpful 👍🏻

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Conmes!

@dondimster6615 4 жыл бұрын

Just saw your video on the space mouse, never mind my question, you did a whole video answering it.

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Don Dimster all good glad you found it before I could reply!!

@RyawnProdu 3 жыл бұрын

Immediately subscribe after seeing this (oh and the framing one)

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Great to have you part of the community! thx

@DESIGNHERE 4 жыл бұрын

Powerful stuff! Great video!

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Yes ghosting can be pretty awesome for different 3d views!

@nemeseduard4736 3 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for this video. Actualy i've been waiting to find stuff like you made on KZfaq. Thank you bro! Just a q. How do you use this Graphic Overides in the collaboration whith your colaborators and clients? Or maybe this is useful only for an efficient workflow and not for sharing with the colaborators and clients!?

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Graphic Overrides can be used in so many ways... during meetings with team members or clients, it helps to focus the conversation and scope of work so its easier to see and discuss. You can also export to BIMx with Graphic Overrides for sharing different views of a model. It is certainly useful for creating drawings as well, and I use it often instead of having duplicated pen sets for highlighting and fading different scopes. Hope this answers your question!

@nemeseduard4736 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM that’s right. I didn’t know is posible to export GO to BIMx so that seems to be very useful. Thank you!

@FilipSmycek 4 жыл бұрын

.. just love all your videos .. keep on doin'

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Filip, glad you like the vids! I'll keep it going as long as people keep watching:)

@dondimster6615 4 жыл бұрын

great video, I really enjoy seeing the ease with which you master this program. Speaking of ease of moving, are you using a space mouse? It seems like the flow is super smooth, curious about you interface tools. If you are, are you using that in conjunction with a mouse?

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Space Navigator by 3dconnexion! I know you know but for anyone else who may have wondered....

@jansoukup7529 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, this is awesome, thanks a lot!! But this setting doesn't work for me in sections and elevations. Am I doing something wrong?

@CONTRABIM 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jan. Thanks for the comment and question. The ghosting should work, if you have the cover fills and cut fills turned on for override. Play around with the foreground and background pen settings and I bet you'll get it!

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

Okey thanks :)

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

hello mr john, how to make 3D cable for electrical plan. 1:00

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

A polygonal morph! Works great for 2d documentation, and well as shows 3d intent of wiring feeds to and from switches outlets and fixtures. Only downside is lack of a length takeoff...hopefully one day:)

@kevinmulemba2290 3 жыл бұрын

Hello bro, this is so nice. Could you please explain how to override using wireframe 3D Style? Because whenever I try, It doesn't go through with the highlighted feature I want to visualize or edit.

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Using a wireframe 3D style, it's going to override everything to be wireframe. You could still override the pens, but that is all you'll get in 3D. If you want to have some content wireframe, and a scope normal or shaded, you could setup a layer combination to wireframe out what you don't want solid. Hope this makes sense! The ghosting effect is a way to bypass wireframe and make everything else really light and very transparent using a common surface setting.

@kevinmulemba2290 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM Thank you very much for this, Sr. I really wish we could a way of DMing you in case of further explanations.

@modjojulienronald5758 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much John, the video is very helpfull. Please can you tell how you did the electrical cables

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you found it useful! I used polygon morphs, which works pretty well as it shows up in 2D plan view, as well as 3D. You can also use these for basic takeoffs and pricing, but the only limitation is we can't calculate the length right now which would be super useful... Hopefully one day:)

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

The other nice thing with morphs, is you can change the overhead line type to get different representations for overhead / underground etc...

@modjojulienronald5758 4 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM Thank you so much you are the best!!

@mohammadalammouri2986 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, please which best way to make roof bricks, and fram inside wall? Thank you in advance

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Mohammad Alammouri thanks for the question. I’ll do a video on the framing, and also in roof tiling!

@mohammadalammouri2986 4 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM thanks waiting for that

@mahmoudqenawi7100 4 жыл бұрын

CONTRABIM Yes pls me too waiting for these videos.

@xelcise89 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! Looks like an amazingly well documented build too! How do you do your rough carpentry framing?

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jamie! Rough Carpentry is a combo of columns, beams, and the roof wizard tools. I'm not using any specific plugins or add-ons, just the out of the box functionality. I think the stud wall framing took a little over an hour to do on this one. Once you rig things up and find a rhythm it goes fast... Thanks for the comment, glad you liked the video!

@xelcise89 4 жыл бұрын

CONTRABIM ah cool! I had tried to set up railings and curtain walls to handle the spacings automatically with framing before (after having some failed experiments with the wall framing goodie from graphisoft years ago), but it made the model incredibly slow and it was very hard to make things display symbolically as you’d hope. That and the fact that they still don’t intersect or interact properly...

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

@@xelcise89 Yes the Goodie framing tool can get close on the representation, but doesn't work well for any quantity takeoffs. It's really difficult to modify after the fact as well, and you have to edit the GDL script to create an offset from face of wall. Interesting thought to try to create framing with railings and curtainwalls! I could see how a curtainwall could get close, but sometimes it's just faster and easier to create individually. Something like headers with varying sizes would be difficult to work out, but easy when placing manually.

@xelcise89 4 жыл бұрын

CONTRABIM Exactly! I got close to making it work well but there were so many unique connections and one-off instances of headers that it made it untenable. Plus having over 100 curtain walls made my Mac want to die i think

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

@@xelcise89 Part of that could have been the intersections? Did you have them all set to a unique layer priority or to zero? Archicad should handle 100 curtain walls no problem, but if they are all intersecting with the walls then that could cause some performance issues. Same thing would happen with the columns/beams as demonstrated, important to set to a different priority not to intersect

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson, i understand it carefully. but I want to ask how to make ghost surface? (2:35 minute)

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for the question. The Ghost Surface is similar to glass, just a little more transparent and lightened up in color a little bit so it doesn't get so dark and muddy. I think I just copied a glass surface to start, then made the adjustments... play with it until you feel its right!

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM I have tried it with other materials with glass but not as good as what is in the video. And i will try again

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

@@sam10sam449 Yes just keep with it, lighten up the transparency and colors may help. Also having your contour lines turned on or off may make a big difference as well. The Graphic Override can control your pen for the Ghosted content so make it light if you have a light background color...

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM okey thanks :)

@chenrunli3354 4 жыл бұрын

I am interested in how you create the structural framing inside the wall. Is that beams and columns and classified them in different structural elements? We are doing both architectural and structural plans in archicad. I don't know which is the proper way to do the framing customized beams and columns profile or using structural objects in the library. It would be great if you can share your idea of modeling the structural framing. Thanks a lot.

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Chenrun Li thanks for the comment. In this case, yes columns and beams for stud wall framing and ceiling joists, used the roof wizard for the rafters! I’ll have to do a video specifically on the stud wall framing method, seems a lot of interest in that!

@mahmoudqenawi7100 4 жыл бұрын

CONTRABIM yes sure, do it soon.

@erivaldodossantos1469 4 жыл бұрын

Nice tip... Can I do this in 22 version ?

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

Yep it works the exact same on v22!

@imamsyafii7041 3 жыл бұрын

how to create line cable, morp or??

@johnhallgarth1284 3 жыл бұрын

Yes a morph! Works great in both 2d and 3D, only downside is no length measurement available

@3hfarm785 3 жыл бұрын

HI WHRE I CAN FIND THE COMPONENT FOR ELECTRICAL. THANK IN ADVANCE GUYS

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

The electrical components are from the USA Library. It's important with these objects to make sure to turn on the 3d option in the settings, most the time they are setup for 2d only. Check your electrical objects and see if you have this option, if you're using another Archicad library then they may be slightly different. Thanks for the question!

@3hfarm785 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM got it brother thanks a lot

@FinoMarg 4 жыл бұрын

john whats ur pc specs i have ryzen 3200u laptop that struggles to high geometry

@CONTRABIM 4 жыл бұрын

I have a Lenovo P51 Laptop, Mobile Xeon, 64 GB ram, and the Quadro M2200. It does the job but a desktop with more CPU cores will be better.

@sam10sam449 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Mr john, i want to ask, how to add all object/Component(maybe layer) in to Graphic override? In minute 7:42

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

If you watch at 8:00 you can see the graphic override for the different framing elements. I have a rule for each framing member type so it shows with different colors in this case. I used element ID as the criteria for the rule...

@neiliusflavius 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any way to ghost like this and make the ghosted elements not selectable so that you can easily select and edit the highlighted systems?

@CONTRABIM 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Neil. Honestly I'm not sure if it's possible to make elements non-selectable. Even if they were locked, they would still be selectable. Perhaps the easiest method could be the find and select? I often like working with selection sets as well, or even the IFC manager can be useful for selections. Sorry I don't have a quick fix for that one:)

@neiliusflavius 3 жыл бұрын

@@CONTRABIM I guessed that was the case. It would be really nice to just see the other elements for context - a bit like a trace reference. I keep being alternately amazed at what Archicad will do and frustrated at what it won't.