Custom Circular Rail

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a very elaborate rail that I made using slabs and saved it as an object. I want it to follow a circular pattern. Is it possible for me to give the railing a radius?

I'm not too familiar with GDL, but I will definitely be willing to give it a try to work this one out, my rendering is due in two days.

I know it can be done, just need some help.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

i would say doing it in gdl in under 2 days is probably unfeasible

could you post a screenshot of the railing?


bill

[Richard Morrison]

You might consider applying it as an image file to a circular (transparent) object.

[Anonymous]

its probably possible using the new MaxonFrom add-on. I saw an online demo last week and it looked pretty capable. That would be way quicker than trying to do it with gdl manually...

your GS reseller should be able to get you the info

[__archiben]

muddasick wrote:
I have a very elaborate rail that I made using slabs and saved it as an object. I want it to follow a circular pattern. Is it possible for me to give the railing a radius?

you're talking about the cross sectional shape of the handrail right? there are many ways of achieving what you want relatively quickly. a couple of things spring to mind:

1. use the 'profiler' tool - simply draw your shape as a fill, select it and activate the profiler. (a quick read of the manual might be helpful before you begin). this is probably the simplest way but a 'static' solution: you will not be able to easily change the radius of the rail without generating the whole thing again but you can make the railing follow a complex path pretty quickly.

2. drag and drop the fill into one of the GDL window - archiCAD generates the code for the polygon. you then need to modify that code to fit into the syntax of the GDL solid that best suits your needs . . . more complex and requires more explanation than i've given, but i'm not at my laptop right now (net cafe) so i don't want to start giving more detailed advice without being able to check that i'm heading in the right direction myself.

you could always e-mail me the profile/path or both with a quick description of what you want and i'll see what i can do . . . (e-mail address is in my signature)

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Here's shot of the railing.

This is really a difficult one, because profile is no good because it's not a solid continuous object.

Thanks for all the help so far, I wish there was an easier way to do this. Maybe a custom railing tool or something.

I could easily do this if the railing didn't have a radius, I would simply use slabs to build the railing and then save it as an object. But the frickin CIRCULAR thing is a killer.

[Anonymous]

Here's the pla file...

[Richard Morrison]

I'm tellin' ya, just save your image as an alpha channel and apply it to a curved wall. This only took a couple of minutes.

[Richard Morrison]

To save you a little time, here's the image file I used for the above. It's a TIF file. You can probably create a higher resolution file on your own if you need a better image. This was just off of your JPG.

[Anonymous]

richard's solution is definitely the way to go

even if you did manage to model/gdl it the rendering time will likely become untenable



bill