topic Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile in Modeling

SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile beam

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:00:14 GMT

I want a curved wall trimmed at the top to a curved roof. I made the "roof" with a complex profile beam. I tried using SEO to subtract and extrude upwards, but nothing happened. Until I drag the wall to one side as an experiment (see attachment). What's up with that?

Maybe I should be turning the beam into a mesh, then use mesh-to-roof. What do you all suggest? (btw, I've never used mesh-to-roof and don't really know how to turn the beam into a mesh!).

(P.S. Can anyone point me to instructions on embedding my attachments into my post so they don't say "download"? Thank you for the help.)

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Dwight — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:36:56 GMT

It works if the wall is a slab.

As for attaching images, See under Add an Attachment the permitted files.
PDF are only allowed as documents while JPEG can be attached as images.

Also, just to be safe., write to the Forum Moderator and ask him to list the forbidden words.

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Dwight — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:18:29 GMT

Another way to do this would be to hide a conventional roof inside the complex profile beam/roof and use that to trim the top of the wall.

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Erika Epstein — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:56:28 GMT

Or if they are both walls you can SEO.

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Dwight — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:01:45 GMT

It is the priorities setting, isn't it?

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Barry Kelly — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:18:33 GMT

Yes wall priorities come into play.

If a vertical wall has a higher priority than the horizontal complex profile wall then it will automatically trim a section of that horizontal wall away.
You can see this cut out section if you select in it 3D.
Because that section of the wall is missing then it can't be used in a solid element operation because there is nothing to cut with.

Make sure the horizontal (complex profile) wall has a higher priority.

Barry.

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:53:21 GMT

Thank you for the great, and easy, fix. I made the "roofs" with the Wall tool and SEO works like a charm.

So far I have the walls and "roofs" on the same layer, so layer priorities hasn't been an issue. But I appreciate your bringing it up as it might have gotten in there and left me puzzled again.

I see where I can "Save As" on my Mac in Preview to make a jpg or png file for attachments.

You guys are the best!

Re: SEO not playing nice w/ curved wall and complex profile

Barry Kelly — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:55:04 GMT

Doug wrote:
So far I have the walls and "roofs" on the same layer, so layer priorities hasn't been an issue. But I appreciate your bringing it up as it might have gotten in there and left me puzzled again.

Yes layers have priorities but don't forget individual walls do as well.

Barry.