Glazed end to sloping glazing + Timber board cladding

[ejburrell67787]

1. I have sloping glazing over a corridor that I want glazed ends on... What is the best method to acheive this?

I have tried curtain walling but it tends to interfer with the sloping glazing... or do I need to edit the elevation profile of the curtain walling to fit it under the sloping glazing mullions?

2. I have timber board cladding - square boards with open gaps between - how best to acheive this effect for rendering? I am guessing that acurender assumes the outer surface of the wall is a continuous flat plane and therefore will not show boards...?

Thanks in advance
Elrond

[beegee]

Sloped glazing should be possible without a mullion at the end. You should be able to delete the mullion that appears there currently.
Is that what you mean ?
Or do you want a curtain wall meeting the sloped glazing, with timber boards under the curtain wall. I haven't tried that, but sounds possible.

As for the open gapped timber boards, I think you will need to make a sweep and array it to get the effect you want in a render. It cant be done with a wall.

[PeterJ]

The render trick can be achieved with a solid surface using a material that is part transparent, but it does depend on the width of the material bitmap being at least one void and one solid wide. In theory it can be achieved quite easily, however it will not show corerctly in a straigtforward elevation.

Another alternative would be to use a railing.

[beegee]

I keep forgetting that Revit thing about railings ... you can build any damn thing out of a Revit railing.

Can you do a Gehry building with railings ? course you can.

[ejburrell67787]

Thanks for your suggestions - Instead I adapted a 'siding' material in the materials editor to tile at the right scale to give the effects of timber boarding... once you know it, it seems the only way to go!!! I had attempted multiple sweeps each the size of a board and offset to give a gap but why model something when you don't need to!?

I'm going to have another go at the curtain wall end to the sloping glazing now...!

Elrond

[ejburrell67787]

Curtain walling ends sussed thanks... bit of playing around with 'edit elevation function' of walls and manipulation of mullions which I hadn't understood before...

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