topic Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs in Modeling

turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Sandramuller — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:48:21 GMT

any way to turn off lines between slabs and roof creating landscapes but keeping lines in rest of model?

Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Barry Kelly — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:13:14 GMT

What lines are you talking about?

Can you point to one in your image?

Barry.

Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Sandramuller — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 05:04:03 GMT

Do you see the grey footpath in front of the house?

Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Barry Kelly — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 05:42:28 GMT

Ahh, so the flat part of your path is a slab and the raking part is a roof.

I thought you were talking about the actual house roof.

There is a physical change in the angles of the surfaces, they are not in line with each other.

So you will always see a line at the change of direction.

You could maybe convert them into morphs, union them together, select just that joining edge (sub-element selection) and then hide it.

But that would also hide the line in plan and all other views as well.

Personally, I would leave it as is.

Barry.

Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Sandramuller — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 05:50:17 GMT

Until I am certain that the levels and design aren't changing too much I was trying to avoid changing it to morph. I was hoping there was sth else.

Re: turn off lines between slabs and roofs

Barry Kelly — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:29:32 GMT

Unfortunately not.

The surfaces are not in line, so there will always be a joining edge.

I would even bother converting to a morph, I would say the edge is good.

If you don't want to see the edge then there should be a curved transition between the surfaces, and that will be a totally different and possibly tricky thing to model (shells maybe).

I guess another option would be to not use roofs and slabs.

You could maybe create a mesh and adjust the heights of the top surface to the points you want.

You can control the visibility of ridges separately in plan and 3D, but you can't control individual ridge visibility.

Or you could look at a ramp object, but I think you will still have lines in 3D for different surface planes.

Barry.