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Morph for a Soffit

fuzzytnth3
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Hi I am having a problem with the "Solidify" morph command.

I am trying to model a tapering curved soffit to join a Roman style arch and an elliptical arch. I have drawn Morph lines describing the perimeter of the soffit but when I use the "Solidify" morph it says "One or more morphs could not be Solidified"

Am I using the wrong method to model this? Is it just to complicated for ArchiCAD?

Any ideas help would be very appreciated.

AC versions 3.41 to 25 (UKI Full 5005).
Using AC25 5005 UKI FULL
Mac OSX 10.15.7 (19G2021) Mac Pro-2013 32gbRam AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB graphics
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Dontknow
Enthusiast
Did some experiments myself.
Make sure your basic morph shapes are morph faces.
Than join them together with 'Boolean Operations -> Union'.
And then do the 'Check Solidity'.

The end result in 3D is a bit 'bumby'.
The elevation view is nice.



Architectural construction designer, draftsman, modeller
ArchiCAD 25.
fuzzytnth3
Booster
Cheers that worked. Although I had to do two attempts at it to try and keep it smooth plus I had to use the increase Segmentation command to get it to play nice to avoid obvious facetting.

I still have some work to do to clean up the soffit where it meets the "light shaft" on the right of the image but at least I have a workable soffit now.

AC versions 3.41 to 25 (UKI Full 5005).
Using AC25 5005 UKI FULL
Mac OSX 10.15.7 (19G2021) Mac Pro-2013 32gbRam AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB graphics
Dontknow
Enthusiast
Glad I could help.
Thanks for showing the result.
Looks like a real picture.
Architectural construction designer, draftsman, modeller
ArchiCAD 25.
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Looking at this modeling situation, I think you could have done this much more easily using the Ruled Geometry Method of the Shell Tool. It has a constant thickness if I am not mistaken.
Just something to keep in mind.
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