Originally Posted by
Dimitri Harvalias
Damon,
Nice summary. I would humbly suggest that the flutes be done by adding geometry (solid) rather than subtracting (void) for a couple of reasons.
First - Voids tend to be less efficient when creating families and, personally, I would find it easier to define the final outline of what I wanted rather than defining what I wanted to take away.
Second - I would probably prefer to add the fluting as trim around whatever the structural column is. This would allow for more flexibility in take-off, pricing, construction sequencing, display control etc. More of a 'big picture' approach than may be required but I tend to like to do things this way.