offsetting

[Anonymous]

This is a continuation of my stadium design problem, but I wanted to try and not meddle with a long thread...

I've had some excellent success using slabs to create the stands, and "multiply + elevate" was just discovered fully by me last night (I'm unfortunately one of those people who don't normally read manuals, so it takes me a while to learn tricks of the trade....)

This "multiply + elevate" works awesome for creating the stands along straight portions and means I can produce unlimited rows VERY easily.. however I'm having problems trying to do that around corners...

the REASON is because say you want a slab 800 mm thick and to follow the contour of a circle, the inside and outside perimeters are different lenghts, therefore simply offsetting the object does not fit, since it will need different perimeters... is there an EASY solution for stretching multiple slabs? similar to the ease of offsetting (multiplying) the same shaped slab.. in AutoCAD the program automatically resizes if it's a PLINE I think, but I can't see any feature like that for slabs....

Thanks again, you've all been very helpful so far...!

[Dwight]

Jacek wrote:
Boy,
Dwight did you score some points with this post or what!

As far as I cold tell there was no way to post more than one image per message.

[Jacek]

As far as I cold tell there was no way to post more than one image per message.

Sorry, couldn't resist. At first I thought that the explanation was in the repeated quotations -The Ziggurat, then I noticed all the posts below. and it struck me...

[Dwight]

The only way I can do a repeat post is to quote the prior - Safari puts a reply attempt at the index but quoting keeps the thread.

[Djordje]

Dwight wrote:
And darned if you could completely skip the lines part and just do it by offsetting slabs.... duh.

You can ... and all in 3D.

1. Do the largest slab

2. In the 3D window, multiply Elevate by the stand distance downwards (specify Z value -)

3. With the slab tool active, offset each slab inside itself for the stnad depth (cursor on the node, Pet palette, define the reduction by r)

4. Punch the holes in larger slabs by magic wanding on the smaller ones below

String quartet.

[David Collins]

WOOO! Dwight!
Nested quotes! Very pretty