Complex profiles are created within the limited tool they inhabit:
Walls only extrude in straight or curved laterals.
Beams extrude in straight or obliquely-tilted laterals - tilt distorts section.
Columns extrude in straight or obliquely-tilted verticals- tilt distorts section.
With the Objective tool those same profiles can be bent rotated and altered beyond how our existing tools function.
The quonset hut is a good example. To achieve a corrugated arch using a custom profile, you could:
-- Make a custom profile curved wall, then view it in 3D from the side and save it as a GDL object, placing it in the plan to achieve the arch. Hard to edit.
-- use profiler with similar steps. Hard to edit.
-- use Cadimage's tool.
-- use Objective to make a parametric objects that can be humped up to the correct arch without distorting the section. See the attachment and the next one.
The glass examples I previously attached were half-pipe sections stretched, arched and radically offset so far that they wound back on themselves.
Dwight Atkinson
Rubia Torres
