topic Re: Vaulted Ceiling in Modeling

Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:03:06 GMT

I am trying to model a ceiling similar to the one pictured below. Basically trying to achieve a vaulted ceiling where the lines in the corners fade away as they emanate from the corner. Does anyone have any thoughts? Maybe the shell tool? Although I haven't been able to make it cooperate. Thanks in advance!

-Chris

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Erich — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:28:52 GMT

If you're on 15 it seems the shell tool should be able to do this. If you are on 12 as your signature suggests, then a combination of complex profiles and the roof tool would work.

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:30:33 GMT

Ooops yea I am on 15. Forgot to update profile.

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:21:46 GMT

Any ideas on how the shell tool will achieve this? To this point I have basically been making two detail extruded shells and SEOing them for mediocre and slightly messy results. Any other ideas using this tool?

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Erich — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:56:30 GMT

I really am still on 12 so I will be no real help with the shell tool

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Djordje — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:11:09 GMT

Chris wrote:
I am trying to model a ceiling similar to the one pictured below. Basically trying to achieve a vaulted ceiling where the lines in the corners fade away as they emanate from the corner. Does anyone have any thoughts? Maybe the shell tool? Although I haven't been able to make it cooperate. Thanks in advance!

Isn't there a vaulted ceiling object in the library?

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:17:54 GMT

If you want to make it out of Shells you should create several Shell pieces and connect them to each other, that way unnecessary portions will be trimmed.

Check out these videos about the Shell Tool:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archicad#p/c/1CA38C58B1DCFE58

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:52:38 GMT

@Djorde I am not sure that there is a vaulted ceiling object.

@lazy thanks, I was looking at these yesterday, but for some reason I cannot get several shells to resolve nicely.

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Erich — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:26:44 GMT

It's hard to see exactly what is happening from the photo but can't you just use a complex profile wall? I know 15 provided a nice new toy for folks to use, but the older tech still works quite well.

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:29:52 GMT

thats not a bad idea...

Re: Vaulted Ceiling

Chris Grantham — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:29:20 GMT

This actually worked really nicely. Since the rooms are not perfectly square, each side of the ceiling needed to be unique complex profile. The general shape of each profile was similar, only the distance to reach the center of the room changed. Sometimes the simplest solution is one that has been around in AC for a while! Duh! Thanks for everyone's input.

-c