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Log Wall Dove Tail

Anonymous
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Does anybody have a method for making clean, interlocking, dove tail ends for a log wall. So far nobody has been able to help me. I will post pictures if you would like to see how i tried it with SEO. Please help!
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Anonymous
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Please post pictures for better understanding. To help you better.
Dave Seabury
Advocate
Ben

I would start with a morph and seo out what you need to create the dovetail.
Then select the morph again and "convert to morph" The interesting part
is when you convert to morph (even though it is already a morph) the seo
operation is permanent.

David
AC 19-26 Windows 10 64 bit, Dell Prercision 7820, Xeon Silver 2414R ( 12 Cores), 64 GB Ram, Quadro RTX 4000 8GB
Anonymous
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David,

I had tried using SEO to do it and my first wall came out great. But when i tried to do the second wall where the corners intersect it took out material from both walls that i hadn't told the program to remove.
Anonymous
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And this was my second wall. Thanks for the reply though!
faulty log walls.PNG
Anonymous
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The first morph i used on the second wall took that material away from the first wall when i didn't even select the first wall. So i'm really not sure what to try at this point.
Erika Epstein
Booster
Another method is to put intersecting walls on layers with different priority numbers (in the layer settings dialogue box). Every other wall would be ,e.g., on a layer with '1' and the others '2'.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
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Onuma System

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Anonymous
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Thanks for the advice everyone!