topic Re: Shaping the underside of slabs in Modeling

Shaping the underside of slabs

Conrado Dominguez — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:16:02 GMT

Greetings to all. specially old, but not forgotten colleagues:

I would like to shape the underside of the slab to a ceiling surface other than flat.

I am thinking about using a mesh as "operator" and the slab as the "target".
Or creating the shape with the mesh, saving as an object, and rotating it.
The shaped surface will be rather elaborate and may need several revisions.

Any ideas to make this process a "sane" procedure?

Oh, I almost forget. I am using AC10

Conrado

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:08:55 GMT

Conrado,
It seems redundant to me to make a mesh, turn it into a lib part,
only to use it as an operator on a slab.
Why not make the mesh, save it as an object, use MULz -1
at the beginning of the MASS command to turn it upside down, and
use the object as your ceiling.
Peter Devlin

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Conrado Dominguez — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:19:35 GMT

Clever !!

Thanks Peter. I forgot the simple uses of GDL.

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:46:19 GMT

It might not work for all instances, but you can also move mesh points downward (-z) below the base of the mesh.

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Link — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:05:11 GMT

Could even use the Mesh-to-Roof Add-on from the Goodies website in your Help menu. Seems to me like it'd just be easier with SEO's though.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:44:35 GMT

What type of ceiling shape are you wanting to make. If it has any type of similar cross section, you could always consider profiler.

Re: Shaping the underside of slabs

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:34:05 GMT

Good point Mike. And in 10 you can also use Complex Profiles. We're using them now to make like coves and other shapley furr-downs.