Morph Railing guideline

[Jere]

Hi,

For the life of me, I can not duplicate the steps in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5yOnSWksdw

I have the same setup, with a 3d polyline floating above the railing. I try to extrude the morphed railing but I can not get it to follow below the guide 3d polyline. It keeps snapping to the polyline. How is he constraining his extrusion to follow the 3d polyline?

This might be related, but I can't get my editing planes to show either.

Additionally, I can't figure out how he gets the proper lengths before bending upward. That is, the lower rail properly extends further than the top one before going up.

Please help!

[Jere]

here's a screen capture of my failed attempt: I still can't get editing planes to show up, but I was able to follow the rail by using guidelines. That said, the three components of the railing all bend at the same vertical spot, which is obviously not correct.

[Jere]

Can anyone help me here? I'm still stuck on the same problem. I got the editing planes (switched to GL engine) but I can't figure out how to use the morph like he does in this video.

What are the steps that I need to follow to make this work?

[Anonymous]

Jere, I played around with this for a few hours, and manage to make it work only by selecting all the morph elements in 3D, then set a guideline for that upwards railing angle, which allowed me to extrude all the elements together along that axis.

Looking closely at that video tutorial, he somehow makes the second part of his extrusion snap to that railing angle, no idea how his done that, but that seems to be the "key" to that upwards extruding part.

I'm a REAL NOVICE at ArchiCAD, maybe the more experienced people can shine a light on how he makes the extrusion follow that angle with a locked offset?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have uploaded a litle tutorial in spanish in youtube about tube option in morph maybe it can help you.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5viMPQfAA

[Anonymous]

Jose I came across your tutorial earlier today, shame I couldn't understand Spanish 😛

In the video tutorial Jere posted, the elements are individually extruded by clicking on the polyline nodes. I tried absolutely everything to replicate what was demonstrated, but the only way I could get it to work was to select "all" elements, then extrude together.

Any chance you can write a detailed step by step?

[Anonymous]

After spending an hour trying to replicate this and failing this is one topic I am interested in knowing it is done

[Steve Jepson]

is this what you want to do ?

[Anonymous]

Steve now your teasing Can i PM you?

[Steve Jepson]

Sure.

http://www.moddex.com.au/cad-support.html

Here is a link to the this ArchiCAD model in a ,pla file if it is any help to you.

It is really very simple but the polycount may be a problem for some computers to handle. ?

I am putting a limit on the number of times it can be downloaded from this link because I am getting hundreds of requests for it. Make your own! It is not that hard.

The fittings are available for download from many websites. Assemble the stations on your stair where you want them, connect with a poly line or the ArchiCAD tube object from the library. Just a bunch of copy, paste, stretch and Bob's your uncle. All of you Aussies can get started with the Moddex website. They have models there you can download in various CAD fromats.

If you ask for the models in ArchiCAD they might sent you this one that I made or something similar ??
https://www.yousendit.com/download/WFJVSU5IcVhrWThQWWNUQw

Someone let me know if this link works or not.