Morphs and Extrude tool ('Tube')

[alexliz]

I need to create a simple drainage elbow segment.

Was going to use the Morph tool and an extrusion along a 3D Polyline morph. 

In theory it should be easy but in practice I find it impossible.

I find that the extrusion happens unpredictably, using arbitrary starting points.

All videos I have watched as well as the online Help from GS, present this as a very straight-forward matter.

Two things are going wrong:

1. The reference point on the cross-section to be extruded 'shifts' from the centre to the perimeter. And...

2. The first curved segment along the extrusion path becomes a straight bit; only the 2nd curve extrudes along the curved path.

What could I be doing wrong?

 

 

 

 

[runxel]

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@alexliz  schrieb:

@runxel : Thanks for the reply. It may have been the case back in v21 through to v25. However, in the current one, Archicad 27, the extrusion path doesn't have to be part of the extrusion profile. I now know this, after extensive trial-and-error since my OP above.

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Interesting, I can't get it to work. There hasn't been any improvements in the Morph tool in the last versions that I know of, so I would be very much surprised if the behaviour has changed.

If you want to follow the curve (it only makes a difference when the Morphline is curved!) you need them to be boolean unioned. Then, and only then, does the Morph profile follow it automatically.

[alexliz]

Hi Mahmoud,

No, it's an extra entry that corresponds to the Apple menu which shows for every application at top-left of the screen, when the app is the active (ie the one at the foreground). See below. It's a Mac thing 😉

 

 

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

Thank you so much for this illustration, wish you the best @alexliz.