Creating funky shaped walls from a mass

[david_spehar]

I'm looking for suggestions on creating a complex shaped wall from a mass using the "wall by face" command. Say you have a mass with a curved face that is canted on one end and the base elevation changes. Using "wall by face" gives me a wall that follows the curve but does not pick up the canted end nor the base elevation change. If I choose "curtain system by face" it follows the complex shape but I need to give it a zillion vertical grid lines to create a smooth curve. Right now my best try has been to create the basic wall and then I created an in place family with a bunch of void extrusions to cut the complex profiles out of the wall (I can't "edit profile" because it is a curved surface). Any suggestions? I could upload the file if anyone has a bunch of free time to do my work for me.

[tamas]

Please post the massing for us to look at. Perhaps with a few nots on which faces you need the funky walls.

Thanks,

Tamas

[david_spehar]

Here's the file. I've created a 3D view called "LOOK HERE" with a couple of notes identifying the wall in question. Thanks for your help.

[tamas]

Here's the file. I've created a 3D view called "LOOK HERE" with a couple of notes identifying the wall in question. Thanks for your help.Thanks for the file. I do not see the Mass in there. However your wall is a vertical wall that follows an arc. When we developed face based walls, it was decided, that for this particular case we do not follow the picked face, thus you only get the "rectangular" outline of the cylindrical face even though it may have odd cutouts. We do have plans for properly following the picked face for this case as well.

Here is what you can do now:

Modify the mass so that the vertical cylindrical face is no longer vertical OR cylindrical. This way the picked wall will be created by the general code, and will not try to become a special vertical arc wall.

You can achieve this by changing the arc to be a more generic curve (ellipse or spline), or add some kind of slant. It all depends on the mass you used.


Hope this helps a bit.

Tamas

[lev.lipkin]

Or just cut arc wall by inplace void family.

[Roger Evans]

While we are on this subject ~ How do you do this one ? Or put another way what is the best way of doing this?

Walls are undulating on plan & tapered in section

Cheers

Roger

[Scott D Davis]

Mass Blend, curvy wall profile at base, extra-curvy profile at top. Then use wall by face.

[david_spehar]

Cutting the wall with an inplace void family works just fine. I just didn't know if there was a better way. Thanks to all for the input.