topic Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ? in Modeling

Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ?

Steve Jepson — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:28:20 GMT

I have this molding made as a beam. When I mirror the beam it loses it's smooth profile. Does anyone know why it might do that?

http://screencast.com/t/wDLfAwnB

Re: Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ?

vistasp — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:09:59 GMT

Hi Steve. I tried it with one of the standard profiles and it mirrored fine. On an off chance, I tried it with different magic wand settings and even with different beam angles (30°, 45°, 60°) but that made no difference.

Re: Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ?

vistasp — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:13:28 GMT

One weird thing, though. At 45° (and not at 30 or 60), if I deleted the original beam, the copied one was truncated perpendicular to its angle and not vertically. Bug?

EDIT: Changed the profile to one of the simpler ones and it worked as expected. Changed it back to the original complicated one and this time it worked as expected.

Re: Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ?

DGSketcher — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:46:42 GMT

Works ok here. Possibly a geometry issue in the source profile.

May be worth redrawing / tracing the profile to see if that fixes it.

Re: Mirror a beam and lose it's correct profile. ?

Steve Jepson — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:01:47 GMT

I didn't need the profile to be a beam for any special reason other than to use it on the slope. What I ended up doing it using one of the moldings, convert to morph and rotate so I can use it on the slope. Down side is that I know the client is going to want to change that profile several times before he decides on what he wants. I wanted to be able to update that complex profile everywhere at once. Also, it was to be in a schedule I have to tweak now for morphs.

What I would really like is if the molding I am using had the option for slope.

The good news is that andro55 posted the gdl script I can add to the molding object for rotation.