While we all want to promote the use of new tools, the morph tool alone is a vastly inferior choice for this assignment:
1: Accuracy: Bending morphs is tedious since each vector must be done individually in 3D and match-snapping is difficult. On the other hand, drawing a complex profile fill in section allows for realistic detail and stretching. You can always morphisize it later for individual adaptation.
2: Editing: Imagine arraying a series of related beams. Using a single complex profile to define the beam section means editing them as a group by editing the fill shape. Morphs require individual treatment/copying and placement.
3: Systematization: I may be a relic of the old days, but it seems to me that elements constructed orthographically lend themselves to fabrication and dimensioning better than amorphic elements.
Dwight Atkinson
