topic Re: Trimming curved wall below stair in Modeling

Trimming curved wall below stair

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:59:13 GMT

Attempted an SEO with a wall and stair in order to show curved wall below curved stair. Something I am doing is wrong. Does anybody have experience doing this?

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Barry Kelly — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:10:24 GMT

Some stair objects are not "Solid" elements and therefore do not work with Solid Element Operations.
What stair object are you using.
Barry.

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:26:46 GMT

maybe you need to post up your model for better help
Cheers

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:54:07 GMT

It is a circular stair, see attachment, I want to cut the curved wall to the bottom of the stringer, or 6" above the top of the steps (haven't decided). Would this stair be a "solid" element? if not, how would I use the roof tool to cut exactly where I want?

Barry wrote:
Some stair objects are not "Solid" elements and therefore do not work with Solid Element Operations.
What stair object are you using.
Barry.

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:23:53 GMT

here it is

tranthainguyen wrote:
maybe you need to post up your model for better help
Cheers

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:10:08 GMT

To tell if the stair is a solid model cut it with the marquee and see if it looks hollow.

If you can't get the stair to cut the wall there is a ramp object in the library that should do the trick. Another approach would be to use a mesh and an intersection SEO with the wall. Trying to make roofs for this purpose would be an exercise in frustration.

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Erika Epstein — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:10:03 GMT

There is a curved ramp in the AC library which will trim the wall using SEO.

Re: Trimming curved wall below stair

Fran_ois Chatelain — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:21:22 GMT

Using the mesh tool is you preferred option in that case, 8 clicks and it's done. No need for SEOs.
- click the 4 corners of your "wall"
- arc the 2 longer sides of the resulting rectangle
- set the height of the 2 highest points of the "wall" and Bob's your uncle...

Cheers
Francois