Round Roof - how to make "radial ridge lines" not show up?

[rob2218]

see attached.
basically been asked to make the "radial ridges" of the rounded roof portion disappear....how do I do that?

[Barry Kelly]

Lots of white lines.

Or cut out that section of the roof and use a SHELL in its place.
You can get a smooth curve with a shell.

Or if your roof is not going to change convert it to a MORPH and you can hide those edges.

Barry.

[rob2218]

geez....really?
hubboy....lots of "white" lines meaning...do I have to draw a "2D line" on top of those "ridge" lines? you're kidding me right.....

A morph? no way...this is a remodel (meaning existing, new, demo) so the roof will get very very messy very very quick if I create this thing into a morph.

A shell huh.....hum.....wonder what I can do there?
I haven't used the shell command that much and quite frankly I'm a bit lost with how to use the shell tool to create a smoothed, rounded roof like this.
particularly when this roof intersects into a normal "ridge and gable" roof...

[Barry Kelly]

Or possibly the best is to split the roof into single roof planes.
Select just the curved portion and convert that to morphs.
Union them together into one morph and then hide the ridges.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Or turn the roof layer off in plan and just draw lines exactly where you want them.

[rob2218]

s2art wrote:
Or turn the roof layer off in plan and just draw lines exactly where you want them.

GEEZ.....I think 2D autocad is looking better and better again.
Really guys....turn the roof off and "draw" 2D lines where you want them?
come on......there's got to be a better solution than 2D white lines, morphed 1/2 baked shapes, and 2d roof lines....please.

[rob2218]

but if I morph the two roofs and "turn off (hidden edges)" the ridges...then ALL the roof ridges including the correct ones..will disappear...won't they?

Barry wrote:
Or possibly the best is to split the roof into single roof planes.
Select just the curved portion and convert that to morphs.
Union them together into one morph and then hide the ridges.

Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

With a morph you can select the individual edges so long as you use the alternate selection method (white selection arrow) - CTRL+SHIFT (CMD+SHIFT?) is the keyboard shortcut.

If you select the entire morph then yes all edges will be hidden - you will still see the perimeter in plan.

Barry.

[rob2218]

is there a "step by step" on how best to use the "shell tool" to create a 'revolved surface'?
I'd like to test the shell tool on this roof.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

go to the Help Centre. search shell and then navigate through the tree on the right hand side. there are several that would be helpful.