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Creating a tapered river bed

Johan Stinckens
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For a current project I would like to create the small river bed which runs on the side of the plot. I've created a morph which is used as a SEO to cut out the river bed. I would like the banks of the river bed to be slanted, not perpendicular to the terrain. I've tried using "offset all edges" on the morph to scale the bottom off the river bed, but I can only affect the edges of the side of the river bed and not the bodem or top plane.

I must be doing something wrong here! Can anyone help out?

ArchiCAD_TaperedRiverBed (2).jpg
Johan Stinckens
BIM Modeller at Atrium Architecten
Archicad user since April 2014 (v17 - v27) - CC iRT i9-12900 - 64 GB / Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 - Windows 10 Pro 64

Other than that it's hiking, camping, climbing.
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
Johan:

I was able to edit the bottom planes using Offset Edge by using the Parallel Projection Settings > Monometric Bottom Projection Type to view the Morph in the 3D Window. I think an easier method is to use a Slab to create the shape of the river, then change the Slab's Edge Angle. The Slab could then be converted to Morph for further editing if needed.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14

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David Maudlin
Rockstar
Johan:

I was able to edit the bottom planes using Offset Edge by using the Parallel Projection Settings > Monometric Bottom Projection Type to view the Morph in the 3D Window. I think an easier method is to use a Slab to create the shape of the river, then change the Slab's Edge Angle. The Slab could then be converted to Morph for further editing if needed.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14