moldings

[Anonymous]

i am attempting to create a coffered ceiling and i'm stuck on how to go about adding the moldings. currently i use morphs to get the desired shape, please advise on best method (if it isn't morph) and how to get the moldings.. grateful for any help

[Dontknow]

Made a video for you of an example of morph pulling.
Hope this helps you.

[David Maudlin]

coxy761:

Another approach is to make a Complex Profile of the molding, create one section then copy it around.

You should add a Signature to your Profile (click the Profile button near the top of this page) with your ArchiCAD version and operating system (see mine for an example) for more accurate help in this forum.

David

[mikas]

I would use custom profiles. It is really easy to change the profile or adjust it later on.
(I lost just a few seconds to David..)

[Richard Morrison]

Dontknow wrote:
Made a video for you of an example of morph pulling.
Hope this helps you.

This was very nice of you to do. It's worth pointing out that the Morph's tube command can be used in conjunction with the Magic Wand tool, and the profile could have been extruded around the entire perimeter in about 1 second. http://www.shoegnome.com/2013/05/14/archicad-modeling-tips-bonus-video/

[Anonymous]

Thank you everyone for your replies and assistance, it's good to get many options... many thanks

[Dontknow]

Richard wrote:

Dontknow wrote:
Made a video for you of an example of morph pulling.
Hope this helps you.

This was very nice of you to do. It's worth pointing out that the Morph's tube command can be used in conjunction with the Magic Wand tool, and the profile could have been extruded around the entire perimeter in about 1 second. http://www.shoegnome.com/2013/05/14/archicad-modeling-tips-bonus-video/

Thank you.
I've been experimenting with this as well but it doesn't always work. strangely.
As you can see in this video.

[mikas]

This is for your further study coxy.

Create a new profile and name it; draw profile section with fill tool, assign it to be used with walls (see red rectangle in screenhot), save it. And then go to plan view, open wall tool, order a wall to be "profiled wall", assign your just created profile to it, and then draw your geometry in plan view. You might want to do a sketch with line tool first maybe, and the use the Magic wand as suggested in the other method too. You might do copy, mirror etc. what ever works to get the desired geometry. Hope this helps.

[Steve Jepson]

and when you are done modeling it as complex profile you may want to convert it to a morph in order to smooth the curves.