Morph Top Surface Area ?

[Steve Jepson]

Is it possible to schedule the top surface area of a morph ? I don't think so.

I am trying to schedule some driveway slabs for surface area and volume. Roofs work fine for most of it, however, if the surface has compound slopes it has to be modeled as a morph or mesh.

How do I get the correct volume and top surface area for something like this into a schedule ?

I need it to be a single element so I can see the ID, Volume, and Surface Area in the Label that is supposed to match the schedule.

I am so tired of work-arounds using a mesh surface for surface area and something else for correct volume.

We need to be able to schedule the top surface area of a morph. Labels for a morph can be configured to show which surface areas of a morph you want to have added together, so the idea is there, it just doesn't work.

As far as I know, you can not show the volume and top surface area of a morph in a Label, and you can't show in a schedule the top surface area of a morph.

[Steve Jepson]

laszlonagy wrote:
The reason there is no Top Surface to a Morph is because it is a completely general tool. It is not like a Mesh, which obviously has a Top Surface. Or a Slab that is always horizontal and has a Top Surface.
A Morph can be oriented and rotated in any way in 3D, so how do you decide which is its top surface? I think this is why there are no such schedule fields for Morphs.

The top surface of a morph could be, and should be calculated the same way the top surface of a mesh or roof is calculated - when ever this is a similar kind of calculation.

When this would not be a similar and simple calculation, we should be able to select what surfaces we wish to be calculated and scheduled.