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Rubia Torres
Anybody has any idea how to make this roof?
Please help
It's pretty straight forward. Just place it on plan and have a play with the settings! Here is a quick guide to the parameters. Feel free to add any corrections and clarifications - this is just based on my understanding.
>Thickness - Gives you a solid body with uniform thickness. The sides will always try to remain perpendicular to the top surface. Can be used for SEO.
>Base level - Similar to the normal mesh tool, creates a solid body with vertical sides that extends to the base level dimension. The dimension specifies the height at which base starts from 0.000.
>Double sided - Allows independent manipulation of both top and bottom surfaces.
Start simple with low number of control points. Add extra points later as location of correct hotspots in 3d view quickly becomes difficult.
Try stretching XY positions on plan, then adjust height in 3d.
Editable hotspots are in vertical pairs in 3d. Lower hotspot controls XY position, upper controls height. They are labeled to avoid confusion.
Stretching it to extreme proportions causes glitches on surface.
Holes can be punched through with SEO. Geometry can also be trimmed to the mesh using SEO, except when set to wireframe ('net') or 'surface'.
Hope that helps!
>Thickness - Gives you a solid body with uniform thickness. The sides will always try to remain perpendicular to the top surface. Can be used for SEO.
>Base level - Similar to the normal mesh tool, creates a solid body with vertical sides that extends to the base level dimension. The dimension specifies the height at which base starts from 0.000.
>Double sided - Allows independent manipulation of both top and bottom surfaces.
Start simple with low number of control points. Add extra points later as location of correct hotspots in 3d view quickly becomes difficult.
Try stretching XY positions on plan, then adjust height in 3d.
Editable hotspots are in vertical pairs in 3d. Lower hotspot controls XY position, upper controls height. They are labeled to avoid confusion.
Stretching it to extreme proportions causes glitches on surface.
Holes can be punched through with SEO. Geometry can also be trimmed to the mesh using SEO, except when set to wireframe ('net') or 'surface'.
Hope that helps!
You guested ok that this is a hyperbolic paraboloid surface. I haven't succeed to reproduce this with a mesh because the mesh tries to interpolate between points with plat surfaces.
Thank you all for your help. Both objects suggested by you worked. Tentmaker and Mesh3d V2. I choose mesh3d V2 because I can set thickness also.
I attached a a render with the actual status of the roof now.
Thank you all for your help. Both objects suggested by you worked. Tentmaker and Mesh3d V2. I choose mesh3d V2 because I can set thickness also.
I attached a a render with the actual status of the roof now.
Looks great! 
Glad it worked for you.
Glad it worked for you.
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