Beam endings?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me how to get a sloped beam to end in a perpindicular cut as opposed to the flush cut that seems the default? I'm trying to create a series of wood slats that vary in angle to the horizontal and the beam tool flush cuts everything.

[Anonymous]

I believe you mean plumb cut when you say "flush cut".
Use the roof tool with the eave and ridge edges set to perpendicular.
Peter Devlin

[Rod Jurich]

Peter wrote:
I believe you mean plumb cut when you say "flush cut".
Use the roof tool with the eave and ridge edges set to perpendicular.
Peter Devlin

Or, if you do not want to reconstruct everything use SEO. Place a small slab on a layer called SEO and subtract. Assuming Peter is correct in you wanting a plumb cut.

[Anonymous]

Rod,
I am assuming that he does NOT want a plumb cut.
AC 10s sloped beam always makes a plumb cut.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Yes, I did mean a plumb cut when I said flush. Thanks for the response-- I found the roof tool works just fine for what I'm doing.

[Rod Jurich]

Peter wrote:
Rod,
I am assuming that he does NOT want a plumb cut.
AC 10s sloped beam always makes a plumb cut.
Peter Devlin

Thanks Peter, I hadn't used sloping beams. Just took the description literally.

deivclayton wrote:
Yes, I did mean a plumb cut when I said flush. Thanks for the response-- I found the roof tool works just fine for what I'm doing.

But now I'm really confused! ':)'

If deivclayton wants a plumb cut, why the original query, and why would he now want to use the roof tool? Unless he really wants a cut perpendicular to the beam end.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I plumb cut is what the beams do, and I wanted perpindicular cuts. Unfortunately, AC10 assumes that we architects always want our beams to intersect something. Sometimes I just want a beam perpindicular cut to be out there as part of an element. Once I get past the conceptual stage of this project, I'll probably convert much of this undulating form into modules of GDL objects, but I need to figure out what the series of wood pieces need to look like and their positions and sizes. The roof tool does work better for this, though I wish AC10 could be more flexible with beams and columns, but at least AC10 has sloping beams now.