Vertical Wood Wainscott

[artitech]

Does anyone have a trick for vertical wood wainscott on an interior wall surface? We need it to render in an interior view as well.

It would start from the floor and go up around 4'-0" on the face of the wall.

THX

[kpaxton]

Does anyone have a trick for vertical wood wainscott on an interior wall surface? We need it to render in an interior view as well. It would start from the floor and go up around 4'-0" on the face of the wall. THX
Umm.. Could you be more specific? Are there reveals, etc in the wainscot? When you say 'rendered' - Are you looking for this to show up in the B/W perspective views, or a color rendering?

This is what I would do:

Create a wall sweep profile for your interior wainscot- make it thin, say 1/8" thick. This works best if things are to be kept 'generic'.
You can apply any sort of model pattern you'd like to represent your wainscot.
You could combine this with your top chairrail and base, but this will translate your pattern on it too, plus you'd have only one materials definition.
Apply the Wall Sweep using your profile.



To keep separate, I would still create profiles, but make one for each (base, wainscot and chairrail.) Apply By Category materials to these.
In your model, create an In-Place family and use the Sweep command to create a sweep for your base molding in the model, and place the path where you need your trim.
As you create this, you can create under Object Styles, subcategories to control your materials. Create one for WallBase-1, Chairrail-1, Wainscot-1, etc). This way, if something changes, all you need to do is change the defintion under Object Styles, and not each element.
Do this for each piece (base, chairrail and wainscot.)
HINT: If you absolutely need to model reveals in your wood wainscot, use an extrusion instead of a sweep. This will get costly model-wise, so it's better to use a model pattern hatch to represent that.
Hope this helps.
Kyle

[artitech]

Umm.. Could you be more specific? Are there reveals, etc in the wainscot? When you say 'rendered' - Are you looking for this to show up in the B/W perspective views, or a color rendering?

Kyle

Sorry Kyle, yes there would be reveals. This would be vertical 1x4 or 1x6 wood panelling with a wood base and a wood chair rail....

Your suggestions would work very well,

Thanks.

[Henry D]

Another quick way to do this if you just need to see it in 3D and elevations... is to split the face of the wall at the chair rail height and then paint the surface with a wood material (with a model vertical line pattern ..if it's a beaded board type) to represent the wainscot and then apply a wall sweep for the chair rail.

[Tom Dorner]

Another option would be to use a curtain wall (I call them ruled wall systems as they can represent a number of different conditions).

Place the curtain wall in front of your regular wall and divide up as required. Define a "panel type with the proper edge condition and switch the panels to this new panel. For the top rail, define a mullion with the proper profile and place it across the top of the wall. The same could be done for the base and inside/outside corner conditions.

HTH

Tom