lattice/deck skirt?

[Patrick M]

does anyone have a lattice or deck skirt object that can be stretched to fit and maintain a pattern?

I'm trying to avoid using the curtain wall at all costs! 

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

[Barry Kelly]

I would use the chain link fence surface material and adapt it for a timber lattice.

New symbol fill if you want it exactly as your image and a new texture with alpha channel.

Barry

[Patrick M]

I thought about that; but didn't want to deal with the transparency in elevation issues... that, and it feels cheap enough to show a lattice on a $6m house, even worse if it's a flat surface...
...

maybe some day when I get a ton of free time, I'll work on scripting something for future use

[AllanP]

do you want it to be an object or a window?

do you want it to be just a rectangle or polygon?

the old draw a slab as the outline of the lattice,

then make the lattice oversized,

2d Script

project2 2,270,3

3d Scrpt

group "main block"
	block a,b,zzyzx
endgroup
group "lattice"
	addx 0-zzyzx*tan(angle1)
	for j_loop = 0 to a+(zzyzx*tan(angle1)) step (slat1x+slat1space)
		roty angle1
			block slat1x,slat1y,zzyzx/(cos(angle1))
		del 1
		addx (slat1x+slat1space)/(cos(angle1))
	next j_loop
	del top
	addx 0-zzyzx*tan(angle2)
	addy slat1y
	for j_loop = 0 to (a+(zzyzx*tan(angle2)))*2 step (slat2x+slat2space)
		roty -angle2
			block slat2x,slat2y,zzyzx/(cos(angle2))
		del 1
		addx (slat2x+slat2space)/(cos(angle2))
	next j_loop
endgroup
placegroup ISECTGROUP("main block","lattice")

killgroup "lattice"
killgroup "main block"

parameters

parameter script

b= slat1y+slat2y
parameters b=b

values "angle1" range[5,85]
values "angle2" range[5,85]

that should work

I hope this helps

[Rick Thompson · Accepted solution]

I have an object from 25 years ago I use all the time.  It works fine as long as you are less than 8' high.  I don't know if I can attach it, so if it is not here PM me and I'll send it.

[Florin Luca]

Hi Allan,

I don't know about @Patrick M, but I loved it! Works great, except for 90 degrees angles. In other words, if the screen has horizontal and vertical slats. AC crashes if one value is to be set to 90. I suspect it is because of the tangent function in the 3D script. Any way of fixing this?

I could do 89.5 and it works. 85.99 degrees crashes! 🙂

Thank you,

[Patrick M]

I hadn't thought of a custom leaf/sash! great idea!