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Sailcloth roof

KeesW
Advocate

I am designing a carport with a sail cloth roof. I've created the shape using the terrain tool but the sagged nature of the placed material is very angular, rather than catenary curvy. Any suggestions?

Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

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Barry Kelly
Moderator

Here is a link to a post that has a 'tentmaker' object - basically a shade sail.

This is a very old object but I think it is the one I still have in my library.

 

BarryKelly_0-1667439330678.png

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Design-forum/Tentmaker-headaches/m-p/42625/highlight/true#M21354

 

 

Hopefully it can help.

 

Barry.

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Solution

It still works! Thank you Barry.

Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
AC 5 - 26 Dell XPS 8940 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD 2TB HD RTX 3070 GPU
Laptop: AC 24 - 26 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD RTX 3070 GPU

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Solution
Barry Kelly
Moderator

Here is a link to a post that has a 'tentmaker' object - basically a shade sail.

This is a very old object but I think it is the one I still have in my library.

 

BarryKelly_0-1667439330678.png

 

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Design-forum/Tentmaker-headaches/m-p/42625/highlight/true#M21354

 

 

Hopefully it can help.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
ryejuan
Advisor

using a morph or shell tool would also be able to this sailcloth right?

In the end what is your Objective?
ArchiCAD 9 onwards
Solution

It still works! Thank you Barry.

Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

cornelis wegman architects
AC 5 - 26 Dell XPS 8940 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD 2TB HD RTX 3070 GPU
Laptop: AC 24 - 26 Win 10 16GB 1TB SSD RTX 3070 GPU