topic Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings in Modeling

Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

jaswrigh — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:00:21 GMT

Hi all, I am trying to bridge two handrails with a morph of the handrail with the elevate tool. Any idea on how to model this? I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW78EsTiIIg as a reference.

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

Hmooslechner — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:51:15 GMT

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

jaswrigh — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:51:49 GMT

Thanks @Hmooslechner!

This solves for the overall shape. My next challenge is controlling for the rise where it interpolates between the two.

The desired shape via grasshopper.

With the rail-edge method above.

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

Hmooslechner — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:52:03 GMT

Maybe this helps:

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

jaswrigh — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:15:05 GMT

Thanks again! Is the fillet tool used in the morph pallet on ArchiCAD 16 a setting that needs to be turned on. I'm in 24 and I get there error when I attempt to fillet the edges of the morph line. See below. And that's with both types of selection.

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

Hmooslechner — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:16:24 GMT

Dont use the fillet - just make your own points along the needed 3D-curve. Its segmented anyway in Archicad.. Archicad is not the real choise to use for interior design - its for bigger things like houses. Such little things You want to design - its not impossible in AC but its not the best tool for that. Rhino, Blender are much better in this topic.

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

jaswrigh — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:11:10 GMT

Got that tool to show up in the pallet after a good restart.

Curve is correct as well.

Except for in plan, the arc shape is skewed

Will probably stick to rhino for this particular piece. Thanks for the guidance thus far.

Re: Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

David O — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:12:33 GMT

A great tip & presentation of it love it!