Corrugated Metal Wall Panel

[artitech]

I am trying to give the face of a wall a vertical corrugated metal panel profile..... how does one go about doing this?

[Scott D Davis]

In place void extrusion used to 'cut' the corrugated shape from the wall is perhaps the easiest way.

[Scott Hopkins]

Two options.

First option: Add a surface pattern of vertical lines to the wall material and then use a corrugated texture map if you do any renderings.

Second option: Build the corrugated portion of the wall as an in-place family extrusion and align and lock it to your existing wall. If you have a lot of corrugated walls this might really slow down your model.

Edit: if you don't just add a surface pattern, then Scott's method above is probably best

[cosmickingpin]

Use straight lines (a segemented curve) not curves to represent this and it will help some.
How much SF are we talking? You could also make yourself a *.bmp with a series of gradients that simulate an undulating surface.

If you have a lot of corrugated walls this might really slow down your model.

[artitech]

All the suggestions are helpful, thanks.

The surface area I am dealing with would be considerable... there are 4 wall panels each of about 162 m2 (1,740 sf) and some additional wall surfaces I haven't finalized yet (perhaps another 11,000 sq.ft.)..

I've attached some images, they are the tall white panels next to the orange panel.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Arti. I often use a Curtain wall and replace the panels with a custom thing I did. Sometimes you have to play around with the family to make it work

[sbrown]

This is one of those things I would recommend not modeling, just use a surface pattern. Your elevations may look very bad if you model them as the curved surfaces straight on will have poor linework, since there isn't a defined edge it will look good in shaded mode but hiden line won't look good. I end up having to place detail lines or use the linework tool on most curved surfaces in elevation.

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

Zeds,

I seem to remember you had a very cool railing profile that you suggested be used in this type of situation.

[Shaun v Rooyen]

Shot Mike. Yes we've used the railing thing too. Just add the corrugate profile as your baluster.

[artitech]

Arti. I often use a Curtain wall and replace the panels with a custom thing I did. Sometimes you have to play around with the family to make it work

Zeds,

That's a good idea... I'll give it a try.

I'm curios as well with the railing profile.... how do you apply that solution to a wall?

artitech