

Now you might want to rotate the wall 90 degrees on Z-axis. And this will place a door at the mouse cursor. Put the mouse cursor near the bottom (floor) of the wall. Probably you have to do it again, to place the mouse cursor on the wall. Shift and then right-click on the wall.(Or you click on the value 2.0 and enter a value like: 4. Make the wall a bit longer with the arrow next to the value by dragging the arrow. Press Shift+A, M, A, W which will ad a wall primitive.Here an exercise to get the hang out of it. This is handy to make openings in the walls for doors and windows automagically. In case you don’t see the on-screen manipulators, go to the Archipak TAB in the N-panel and click on manipulate.And there is an arrow for the thickness of the wall. You can also click on the number and enter a value. Other arrows on the floor-level are for the lenght of each side of the wall.You can then enter a value, probably -90. In case you are surprised why the wall got extended to another direction, click on the 90 degrees symbol. Where you see two arrows, one to the left, and two the right, that is to make another side of the wall.It’s will save you some time understanding the setup in case you are not familiar with the Archipak addon yet. Quick overview of the Archipack addonĪfter enabling the addon in the preferences, you can find Archipack in several places.

To set clear expectations, the Archipack 1.2.8x is free and Archipack 2.x with extensive features is the version you can buy on Gumroad. The 2.x version has more generators, better material management, sunlight and much more. While the build in version ( 1.2.8x series) in Blender has surely enough features to build your archviz scene, the Archipack 2.x version has extensive features. There are two versions of the Archipak addon.

Archipack 1.28x vs Archipack 2.x versions Some of them have presets, like type of roof, door and window. Primitives like wall, floor, slab, windows, door, stairs and more are included. You can manipulate these primitives with a realtime on-screen editing interface. The Archipack addon for Blender 2.8 contains a collection of parametric primitives for ArchViz.
