topic Re: Morph for a Soffit in Modeling

Morph for a Soffit

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:26:48 GMT

Hi I am having a problem with the "Solidify" morph command.

I am trying to model a tapering curved soffit to join a Roman style arch and an elliptical arch. I have drawn Morph lines describing the perimeter of the soffit but when I use the "Solidify" morph it says "One or more morphs could not be Solidified"

Am I using the wrong method to model this? Is it just to complicated for ArchiCAD?

Any ideas help would be very appreciated.

Re: Morph for a Soffit

Dontknow — Wed, 06 May 2015 17:30:51 GMT

Did some experiments myself.
Make sure your basic morph shapes are morph faces.
Than join them together with 'Boolean Operations -> Union'.
And then do the 'Check Solidity'.

The end result in 3D is a bit 'bumby'.
The elevation view is nice.

Re: Morph for a Soffit

fuzzytnth3 — Thu, 07 May 2015 08:18:16 GMT

Cheers that worked. Although I had to do two attempts at it to try and keep it smooth plus I had to use the increase Segmentation command to get it to play nice to avoid obvious facetting.

I still have some work to do to clean up the soffit where it meets the "light shaft" on the right of the image but at least I have a workable soffit now.

Re: Morph for a Soffit

Dontknow — Thu, 07 May 2015 09:52:03 GMT

Glad I could help.
Thanks for showing the result.
Looks like a real picture.

Re: Morph for a Soffit

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:06:06 GMT

Looking at this modeling situation, I think you could have done this much more easily using the Ruled Geometry Method of the Shell Tool. It has a constant thickness if I am not mistaken.
Just something to keep in mind.