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MORPH Element - Lines in Elevation and 3d

Anonymous
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Hi.
MORPH Tool = Awesome

Very powerful.
Baby Steps - Using it to create a few quick stucco details on the fly in 3d.

Problem...
Lines appear at junction of MORPH element and adjacent columns / slabs.

Any ideas?
I have tried changing surface materials. I have tried SEO operations on the MORPH element.
All the nodes are definitely in contact. The lines will just not go away.

I know there are myriad different ways to achieve the arches but wanted to get the MORPH tool working.

Thanks.

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Anonymous
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Oh, and co-planar MORPH to MORPH, no mating of surfaces either turns out.
Karl Ottenstein
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g.h.design wrote:
Oh, and co-planar MORPH to MORPH, no mating of surfaces either turns out.
That would make the Morph a Mule (sterile offspring of donkey and horse). 😉
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Karl Ottenstein
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g.h.design wrote:
(Except in Lightworks Render)
Not just LW. If you turn "Contours" OFF in the 3D window, then your OpenGL 3D window will not show the lines either.

But, with Sections/Elevations, 3D Documents, etc still being bread-and-butter of construction drawings, this lack of clean-up reduces our abilities to use Morphs for quick model embellishments.

The first time I saw this was with Complex Profiled walls - where I used a Morph to wrap a CP extrusion around a wall end - a half wall that had a cap. So much for the easy solution.

We can only hope that improvements are on the way...

Cheers,
Karl
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Anonymous
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Hah. A Mule

Thanks for the response.
Cheers as well.
Anonymous
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maybe a workaround might be to use the morph object as an SEO object on a hidden layer and 'add' it to the wall while retaining wall attributes - haven't tried it, but may be an option.
Anonymous
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Nope. No cigar. Just tried it...
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Turn everything into morphs and then you can hide the lines.
Barry.
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Anonymous
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Reminds me of a Modern English tune.

'I'll stop the world and MORPH with you'

MORPH the world!
Red
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Running into the same issues...
Thanks,
Red
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