Having trouble with complex profiles

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I'm trying to create a concave, irregular wall somewhat similar to this one:



I am fairly new to making complex profiles and am struggling. Any help would really be appreciated.

thanks.

[Anonymous]

it will automaticly rotate it to horizontal once you save it as an object.

go to 3d view and setthe camera to be viewing it directly down like plan view before u save it

[Anonymous]

hmm just can't seem to do it.... I can get it to curve vertically and horizonatlly seperately. but i cant seem to get it to curve both vertically and horizontally if you know what i mean.. i must have missed a step somewhere. i'll keep mucking around with it and hopefully i'll find that missing step.

[Erika Epstein]

when you save it as an object, you need to be looking at in the 3D window as though you are looking straight down on it as it will be when placed.
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[Anonymous]

thanks for all the help, I really do appreciate it.. I've now been able to do everything but make the profile curve vertically. As you can see in the picture it's only curved horizontally.

[David Maudlin]

willy684 wrote:
I've now been able to do everything but make the profile curve vertically. As you can see in the picture it's only curved horizontally.

When drawing the wall, use one of the curved wall Geometry Methods so the wall is curved in plan (before being rotated when saved as an object), this should be slightly more than a semi circular shape in your case.

David

[Ralph Wessel]

willy684 wrote:
thanks for all the help, I really do appreciate it.. I've now been able to do everything but make the profile curve vertically. As you can see in the picture it's only curved horizontally.

Take a look at OBJECTiVE - it has tools for bending custom profile or built-in steel objects to complex curves in 3D. The objects retain their intelligence too, no matter how they are bent, rotated, or cut in 3D. I've attached some images to illustrate some uses of the tools. You can find out more at: http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html

Modelling the building in the picture won't be easy - I could be wrong, but external envelope doesn't seem to be comprised of regular arcs, i.e. it looks egg-shaped.

[Anonymous]

willy684 wrote:
thanks for all the help, I really do appreciate it.. I've now been able to do everything but make the profile curve vertically. As you can see in the picture it's only curved horizontally.

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[Dwight]

You need to understand that a curvy-durvy wall must be converted into an arched structure by converting it into an object - this is how the orientation is changed.

Use the information here to do it:

http://www.archicad.ca/Downloads/DNC-Cookbook-4/Intro-to-Object-Making.pdf

page 14

[Anonymous]

cheers for that Dwight, helped a lot.

A new problem I'm now facing is that I cant figure out how to change my background from grey to white... If i select the complex profiles it changes my drawing area from white to grey, which only began happening today.. How can i change it back so it looks like it does in the second picture? I cant see any of the lines that i draw if it's grey even though they are there..

cheers.

[Anonymous]

Don't worry, I worked out how to fix it.