https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224388#M120981 Thank you for your answers!<BR /> I shall use the morph tool then. Sat, 18 May 2019 10:32:15 GMT Anonymous 2019-05-18T10:32:15Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224385#M120978 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Which tool would be best to use to create this tubular shape with different inner and outer section and then cut ellipsoid holes along its length?<BR /> As far as I understood, shell tool could easily cut holes in the tube, but morph tool couldn't.<BR /> <BR /> Thank you!</T></DIV> Wed, 24 May 2023 17:00:31 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224385#M120978 Anonymous 2023-05-24T17:00:31Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224386#M120979 I would use morph and then cut the holes with SEO. Thu, 16 May 2019 13:14:40 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224386#M120979 Anonymous 2019-05-16T13:14:40Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224387#M120980 I agree with Haiku, probably the Morph Tool is the best option.<BR /> As I can see on the picture, the thickness of the Shell is not constant, it is thicker on the sides, thinner that the top and bottom. The Shell Tool can create only constant thickness structures. So probably the Morph Tool is the way to go. Sat, 18 May 2019 01:22:43 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224387#M120980 Laszlo Nagy 2019-05-18T01:22:43Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224388#M120981 Thank you for your answers!<BR /> I shall use the morph tool then. Sat, 18 May 2019 10:32:15 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224388#M120981 Anonymous 2019-05-18T10:32:15Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224389#M120982 in fact - it is a much more complex task to get such a form - because You would need an elliptical spiral to get the "cutout" in front. <BR /> <BR /> There are some workarounds possible to do similar things with the railing-tool and its "inner tubes", but better would be to script a GDL-Tube for an elliptical spiral and make an SEO-cutout. Really not so easy.. Mon, 20 May 2019 04:08:52 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224389#M120982 Hmooslechner 2019-05-20T04:08:52Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224390#M120983 You could make this with complex profile beams for the floor, complex profile walls for the walls, and another complex profile beam for the roof. <BR /> <BR /> Regards <BR /> Scott Wed, 22 May 2019 11:24:25 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Tube-with-different-inner-and-outer-section-and-holes-in-it/m-p/224390#M120983 Anonymous 2019-05-22T11:24:25Z