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Complex profiled slanted and curved wall

Anonymous
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Hi.

How can I create a wall with this shape (see image below) that has a wall height that evenly increases from start until end?

I have managed to do a simple case by simply creating a wall from polylines and convert it into a morph thereafter stretching the top end wall line downwards. This doesn't work though when the wall has a more complex polylines (more aggressive curves) e.g it has a lot of nodes hence it doesn't work to lower the whole wall after morphing it.

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Anonymous
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Create a curved wall with the wall tool,
Morph the wall,
Split it in two equal pieces,
Use the pet palette to offset edges up or down to suit.
Anonymous
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That's what I have tried but I can only create the desired shape by magic wand. The thickness of the wall is also inhomogenous and one end of the wall is not a straight line, it is pointy. Hence I cannot even pull down that line with offset.
Eduardo Rolon
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Basic tutorial.

1. Start with the fill in floor plan of the wall shape
Screen Shot 2013-07-31 at 11.26.57 AM.png
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Using the Polygonal Wall Method, magic wand the fill to get the wall
Screen Shot 2013-07-31 at 11.27.04 AM.png
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Result
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Using a Roof, Shell or a Mesh define the top edge of the wall
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Using Connect SEOs subtract with upwards the Mesh/Roof.

In this case since I used a roof I used Connect "trim elements to roof/shell"
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Place the Roof/Mesh/Morph/Shell on a specific layer ( I use x-SEOs) and hide the Layer.
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Example of using a Morph to define the Top Edge of the wall since you can move the points in Z. You can magic wand the Morph to the original fill.
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