Complex Profile Stretch

[Eduardo Bell]

Hello,
I can't get the center cut on this spandrel guardrail to remain constant while stretching the ends to fit varying column spacing. Any ideas how to achieve this?
Horizontal and vertical stretch lines are on in the manager, still the cut deforms while stretching the piece.
Thanks in advance.

Ed

[Anonymous]

I don't think it is possible to have multiple stretch areas along the same plane (vertical, horizontal). The CP editor only allows you to have two lines on the Horizontal Stretch layer and profile is being stretched proportionally between those two lines. Any new line placed into the CP editor is placed on the Drafting layer and doesn't impact the 3D geometry of the CP.

[Eduardo Bell]

Yep, thanks for the reply.
I'll guess I'll have to use a wall with a constant opening instead.

Ed

[Anonymous]

I was thinking about your profile a little further - since you indicated the groove/reveal is a fixed number, why don't you cut the profile in half where half the groove/reveal is at one end of the wall and the other end is stretchable. Then place the two walls side by side at the groove/reveal? Despite the clean up in section views, I guess the only downside to that may be the line at the "center" of the groove/reveal on floor plan view.

[Eduardo Bell]

Hmmm, not a good idea to duplicate each panel, got many sizes & the point is to model them in a way that it is easy to modify if column spacing or width changes. I made a WALLHOLE window & it works well. Also the line in the middle is not what we want in this case. Thanks for your input anyway.
Ed

[sinceV6]

I don't know if this is what you need.

If you are making reveals in walls, remember that you can use columns and beams to cut geometry out of walls and slabs. You can make the cut you need as a column/beam custom profile, and use'em either as SEO elements, or let them do their magic using priorities. Place them in separate layers to hide using layer combos and make them wireframe only so they don't get in the way when editing.

[Eduardo Bell]

Yes, this is an alternate method that works as well. In the end I opted for a regular wall with a custom hole. Thanks.

[vfrontiers]

Loosely related...

Why the #$#@ or How the *&^% does the VERTICAL STRETCH LAYER get locked... and HOW THE *#&$ do you UNLOCK IT...

Can you tell a deadline is looming!

I have run into this in the past but it was the DRAFTING layer... Simply trying to draw something on that layer bring up the dialog box to SHOW & UNLOCK layer... But you can't set anything to draw on the VERTICAL STRETCH LAYER, so I can't use this trick...

Yes, the stretch boundaries show up, but I need to move them and can't...

[vfrontiers]

Nevermind... I finally got it to see the OPTION CLK and proceeded with methodology described in previous post...

[Dave Jochum]

Duane,

To your original question--How do you control the locking/unlocking of the stretch layers? OPT-CLK what and what methodology were you referring to?