Rope Moulding creation question

[Anonymous]

Hello,
I'm hoping someone might have a good solution for this; I have a client who wants rope moldings accents on a lot of cabinetry, up until now I have been modifying the spiral object in the special conts. folder to create the look but the more I add to this the longer all my processing goes so this is not a good full model solution. I have cadimage’s Profiler tool and we picked up Objective this weekend to maybe model a more efficient way to create this both in my time and in processing time. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi Woodz,

Can you post a picture of what you are trying to achieve?...

Also... it would help us help you if you create a signature in your profile with your OS, AC version and hardware specs.

[Djordje]

Whichever way you do it, it is going to add gazillions of polygons and slow you down.

Good luck.

[Steve Jepson]

Braza wrote:
Can you post a picture of what you are trying to achieve?...

like this?




http://www.vectorart3d.com/store/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Detail&ID=50427

[Anonymous]

That picture accurate for one part, the rope in the crown moulding on the cabinets, the other part is the client is having custom cabinets milled with a 1" wide rope framing the raised panel on the doors. I will upload a quick pick of that shortly.

[Steve Jepson]

Why does it need to be in 3d ?

[Anonymous]

Ok Woodz... I got it...

If you want it all modeled in 3d... you can do it... But as Djordje said... Prepare for a polygon nightmare.

If I were in this situation... I'd create a complex profile with 2 fills...

One for the plain wood, and another semi circular to which I would apply another material with a rope texture...

This would make your life a hell lot easy with the 3d renderings...

HTH.

[Ralph Wessel]

woodz31 wrote:
Hello,
I'm hoping someone might have a good solution for this; I have a client who wants rope moldings [] we picked up Objective this weekend to maybe model a more efficient way to create this both in my time and in processing time.

You can easily model this with OBJECTiVE (see attached image). You can also easily control the facetting of profiles created with OBJECTiVE - they all have a setting specifically for this purpose. You can make the objects very smooth for close-up renders, or a bit chunkier (and with far fewer polygons) for everything else. Let me know if you'd like more detailed instructions (or an example).

[Anonymous]

Ralph,
That looks great, I would be greatly interested in learning the steps to do that, any help or instruction I would appreciate. Thanks in advance.

[Steve Jepson]

Yes. Very nice Ralph.

I have made this rope trim the hard way too.
You can make a 1/2 ring with the profiler, view it from the top, save it as a library part, rotate it to 45 deg., and then multiply it close together so it looks like a rope. Not a good option unless your desperate.