Morph pet palette not giving me the pencil tool

[Chris Pooley]

Hi,

I used to be able to do this in A25, for some reason I can not figure this out in 27

I follow the instructions in that video, when I click the morph it just selects the morph, it doesn't give me options.  When I shift + select, it doesn't give me the tools I need to create the hole, see image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvULnFQBei0

In 3D I get all the tools I need, but this means my lines are in arbitrary locations. I really need to do this in my elevation view.

Any guesses as to what I am doing wrong?

Thank you

Operating system used: Windows 11

[mthd]

@Chris Pooley, to do what you are wanting above, a more simple approach could be to just create a single skin wall and place openings in it and work on it in the 2D elevation window.

I had no major problems creating a morph in the 2D elevation and then putting a hole in it, in the 3D window then editing the shape in the 3D window using AC27. And to keep it orthogonal in a 2D plane by using looking to perpendicular before editing it. 

Keep experimenting you will get what you want in AC27 too.

Morphology has its own peculiar methodology.

[Chris Pooley]

It is the line that is selected, but when I hit delete, I loose the whole morph.

When I ctrl + shift select the sub element (rectangle) to create the hole, that is all good, so I know I am doing it right. 

Then the same process for the line, no luck...

Its all good, I cant be having all the random lines, and with the amount of holes I want to create to make the lattice, they will be everywhere and it will make my extrusion operations take ages.

I will just do the method of creating the hole in 3D while the morph is flat, then back to 2D elevation to shape the hole, then repeat 20 (ish) times. Once it is all shaped up, I can just do 1 extrusion operation to give it the volume.

Thanks for helping out everyone.

[mthd]

Yes that will work and you can also convert a wall with openings in it to a morph as well if need be.

Cheers !

[Barry Kelly]

Create a complex profile beam or wall?

Much easier than a morph.

Barry.

[Chris Pooley]

I had not even considered doing a wall!!!

Thanks both, that is way easier.

[mthd]

I also tried drawing a 2D morph face with AC28TP in the 3D window and cut a hole in it with the Shoegnome method. I went to edit my morph hole in the 3D window and got the pencil icon and the morph plane turned white and that made it easier to see my editing. 

Looks like a bonus with AC28 ? cool 😎, thank you GS.