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Rubia Torres
Attached is an exploded 3D view labeled in the 3D document window. I hope it makes it clearer. 
I tend to prefer slabs to walls when doing things like this. I could have made it with walls and cut holes with door or window openings
in fact I made this coffer both ways. Well, I started, but the wall method was taking to long.
Anything that are multiples I create one and, you guessed it, multiplied it. cmd/ctrl+U is a great time saver. I did one side of the arch and then mirrored it to get the other.
The arch portion I made similarly, one int. support rotating copies, etc.
The custom profiles I created for the trim around the coffer are mirror images so I can draw the bottom leg, drag a copy up and then apply the mirror image so the trim faces down towards the original one.
Most of this was done in the 3D window. Only when I was placing the vert. trims in the arch and some rotating were easier to do in the plan window.
I tend to prefer slabs to walls when doing things like this. I could have made it with walls and cut holes with door or window openings
in fact I made this coffer both ways. Well, I started, but the wall method was taking to long.
Anything that are multiples I create one and, you guessed it, multiplied it. cmd/ctrl+U is a great time saver. I did one side of the arch and then mirrored it to get the other.
The arch portion I made similarly, one int. support rotating copies, etc.
The custom profiles I created for the trim around the coffer are mirror images so I can draw the bottom leg, drag a copy up and then apply the mirror image so the trim faces down towards the original one.
Most of this was done in the 3D window. Only when I was placing the vert. trims in the arch and some rotating were easier to do in the plan window.
Originally I applied the horiz. custom profiles to the wall. This left no line where they intersect the vert. sides made with the column tool . I changed the walls to beams and the beam's natural cutting section (intersection priority) trimmed columns creating a line where they intersect.
Remember, this is just one way to accomplish this. Challenge yourself by thinking through the pieces from which in real life the coffered arch will be constructed.
HTH
Remember, this is just one way to accomplish this. Challenge yourself by thinking through the pieces from which in real life the coffered arch will be constructed.
HTH
now another challenge, thanks to the help from Erika and Matthew I was able to create the arches including one with an ellipse, but now another thing came up.. javascript:emoticon(':?')how do I model the same coffer detail for the three arches that are in a curved wall, is there a way to bend an object any ideas... thanks!!
