How to: incline crown moulding? Any help or ideas please.

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody, I just joined the forum.
I am on a 30 day trial of ArchiCAD for Mac and I am loving it!
I have hit a road block though, I can't seem to figure out how to make the crown trim at the tops of the walls go up at an inclined angle over the front of the entrance. You can see in the attached images I was able to get a little square piece go up at an angle, but the crown has me stumped..
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[Thomas Holm]

Rod wrote:

Rakela wrote:
what about the NEW Archirotate ?? i have tried but doesnt work for me

Persist. Read the manual carefully.

One argument against for example Cigraph's Archistair is that the add-on has to be loaded at all times. What about Archirotate?

[Djordje]

Rod wrote:
All rotation degrees must be positive.

In the plan, if you specify the rotation axis is a positive direction, the rotation angle is positive. Ig you specify it in a negative direction (down, left, or down-left), it is negative.

Traditionally cool and not obvious

[Rod Jurich]

Djordje wrote:

Rod wrote:
All rotation degrees must be positive.

In the plan, if you specify the rotation axis is a positive direction, the rotation angle is positive. Ig you specify it in a negative direction (down, left, or down-left), it is negative.

Traditionally cool and not obvious

Not wishing to step on Masters toes you may have misunderstood my comment.
(And my comment may not have been as clear as it could have.)
The text box will not accept the minus symbol (-)

So try putting any negative (-35˚) in the text box and tell me what the result is, in either the 2 or 3D windows.
Not a problem, just an observation.

[Rod Jurich]

Thomas wrote:
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One argument against for example Cigraph's Archistair is that the add-on has to be loaded at all times. What about Archirotate?

All AR does is act as a tool.
The saved part is "Called" with the additional script enabling it to be rotated.
If you want to bang a nail into a bit of wood you need your hammer, don't you
I am grateful to Fabrizio and team for this little addon.
So I for one will worry less, and work more

[Thomas Holm]

Thanks, Rod. The hammer would have been convenient when I banged my head against Architerra. But now that I've tried Archirotate myself I agree it's a nice addition to the toolbox and that we should be grateful to Fabrizio.

[Djordje]

Rod wrote:
you may have misunderstood my comment.

Nope.

Rod wrote:
(And my comment may not have been as clear as it could have.)
The text box will not accept the minus symbol (-)

I know; so I posted a way to be sure that the rotation goes to + or minus, despite the fact that you cannot input a negative angle. You define the direction of the rotation axis instead.

Just an addition to your observation

[Karl Ottenstein]

Thomas wrote:
...we should be grateful to Fabrizio.

Agree...and even more so since the zip file contains versions for ArchiCAD 8, 9, 10 and 11. Not sure I recall that being mentioned before.

Cheers,
Karl

[Rod Jurich]

Djordje wrote:
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I know; so I posted a way to be sure that the rotation goes to + or minus, despite the fact that you cannot input a negative angle. You define the direction of the rotation axis instead.

Just an addition to your observation

That's why you are the Master,Djordje
Having now played quite a lot more with this gem of a tool.
It all comes down to the placement and direction of the line
that will determine the final result.

I'd become familiar with the way OBJECTiVE displays a graphic circle and arrow to assist.
And thanks again for pushing the boundary a little more.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Rod wrote:
It all comes down to the placement and direction of the line
that will determine the final result.

If I recall, it follows the 'right hand rule'. Imagine your outstretched thumb as the axis that you draw, with the tip of the thumb as the end point. Your fingers curl counter-clockwise and represent the direction of positive rotation...

Karl

[Djordje]

Karl wrote:

Rod wrote:
It all comes down to the placement and direction of the line
that will determine the final result.

If I recall, it follows the 'right hand rule'. Imagine your outstretched thumb as the axis that you draw, with the tip of the thumb as the end point. Your fingers curl counter-clockwise and represent the direction of positive rotation...

Karl

Yep, age old mathematically positive direction. Thanks for the reminder, Karl!