The Mesh tool is great for modeling shower floors in Archicad (or any other floor/roof condition with a flat bottom and a sloped top). In this quick video I show how to make a mono-pitch floor and a shower floor that slopes to the middle. In both examples I also use the beam tool to model a floor drain.

This is my hundredth Archicad Tutorial video. I really wanted to do something big and special. But an architect here in Seattle asked me about shower floors in Archicad, and I didn’t have a video. So I recorded one. Videos 101 and 102 will be posted in the next few weeks and maybe one of those would have made for a better video 100, but this one was the fastest to get edited and posted. Plus it’s the most relevant for my friend. While a five minute video on shower floors isn’t a huge extravaganza, it is very fitting that I would have a milestone video focusing on bathrooms. Hope you find the video helpful:

My first two Archicad tutorial videos were shared way back in December, 2011 (over twelve and a half years ago). Want to watch some ancient, semi-relevant Archicad videos about 2D hacks? Here you go:

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