curved beams?

[Anonymous]

Hello all,
Is it possible to draw/ model a curved beam?
I have made a custom profile of a cornice that wraps a building. One part of the building is rounded. Is it possible to create a curved beam that will clean up nicely with the rest?

[Anonymous]

Sadly the beam too does not curve. You can use a profiled wall though.

[Laszlo Nagy]

If you want to make it out of Beams though, you will have to use short Beam segments to achieve the curve. You may use Magic Wand to do it: draw the intended curve then SPACE-click with the Beam Tool selected. You can even SPACE-click a Spline this way.

[Anonymous]

MR. laszlonagy how can i use short Beam segments in curved beams ?!

[Laszlo Nagy]

It is written in my previous post:

draw the intended curve (with the Arc Tool) then SPACE-click this curve with the Beam Tool selected.

Since there can only be straight Beam segments after SPACE-clicking with the Beam Tool selected the curve will be approximated by Beam segments. The segments will be generated based on settings in the Magic Wand Settings Dialog.

[Anonymous]

THANKS A LOT Mr.laszlonagy . There are a lot of tricks needs to study and practice.

[Erika Epstein]

Or you can make it with the wall tool.

[Anonymous]

thanks Erika . but i needed to make it with beam element to be under quantity surveying of all beams . thanks

[Erika Epstein]

Khater,
It sounds like you might have to do some fiddling with how you are extracting the quantities. If you have a lot of individual straight segments each will count as a separate quantity item. Using the a custom profile to create a curved beam or a wall and tagging them as Beams may be easier to get accurate quantities.
Which version of AC are you using?

[Anonymous]

erika, i am using AC 15 . i solved this problem of segments of curved beam by named its with the same ID and that is to search y ID to make the quantities schedule .but i didn't use the tag way to make identify as a beam !