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Archicad 24 | Elevate morph face to bridge two railings

jaswrigh
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Hi all, I am trying to bridge two handrails with a morph of the handrail with the elevate tool. Any idea on how to model this? I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW78EsTiIIg as a reference. 

 

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Hmooslechner
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AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia

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Hmooslechner
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AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia
jaswrigh
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Thanks @Hmooslechner

 

This solves for the overall shape. My next challenge is controlling for the rise where it interpolates between the two. 

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The desired shape via grasshopper. 

 

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With the rail-edge method above. 

Maybe this helps: 

AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia

Thanks again! Is the fillet tool used in the morph pallet on ArchiCAD 16 a setting that needs to be turned on. I'm in 24 and I get there error when I attempt to fillet the edges of the morph line. See below. And that's with both types of selection. 

 

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Dont use the fillet - just make your own points along the needed 3D-curve. Its segmented anyway in Archicad.. Archicad is not the real choise to use for interior design - its for bigger things like houses. Such little things You want to design - its not impossible in AC but its not the best tool for that.  Rhino, Blender are much better in this topic.

AC5.5-AC27EduAut, PC-Win10, MacbookAirM1, MacbookM1Max, Win-I7+Nvidia

Got that tool to show up in the pallet after a good restart. 

 

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Curve is correct as well. 

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Except for in plan, the arc shape is skewed 

 

Will probably stick to rhino for this particular piece. Thanks for the guidance thus far. 

A great tip & presentation of it love it!