topic Re: Changing surface of morph with lots of faces in Modeling

Changing surface of morph with lots of faces

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:23:30 GMT

Hi all,

I've downloaded a V&A basin in Sketchup format (that's all they had) and have converted it into a morph in Archicad. It is a vessel basin (above the vanity bench) and it has a black surface outside and white surface to the top rim and the inside. But the Sketchup model/morph is all one colour/material.

I've tried selecting the external surface of the morph and changing the surface with the custom surface settings of the morph tool, but as the basin is curved, it has hundreds of small triangular surfaces to make up the curve.

I've also tried the same thing after "smooth and merge faces" but that changes all the inside and outside surfaces of the basin.

Anyone got any advice on how I can change just the outside surface of the basin?

Re: Changing surface of morph with lots of faces

Lingwisyer — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:02:25 GMT

If you change the surfaces in SketchUp prior to importing, will that split the selections?

Ling.

Re: Changing surface of morph with lots of faces

Carstenem — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 22:54:46 GMT

easy work around, see screen shot

Re: Changing surface of morph with lots of faces

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 01:31:13 GMT

Sorry for my delayed response - I didn't receive the notification email of replies!
Thanks for your suggestions, I'll give them a try.
Not too familiar with Sketchup, but I'm sure I can work it out.
I like your workaround too - thanks.