Best Method: Battered wall w/ stone wainscot

[patricks]

I need to create a battered (sloped) wall with a stone wainscot. What would be the best method for doing this? It appears that I cannot add sweeps to non-vertical walls (really sucks). :(

- Create a sloping mass, use wall by face for the sloping walls, create the wainscot in-place

- No mass, create both walls and wasinscot as in-place sweeps

The problem I'm seeing is I'm going to have storefront openings recessed into the wall, and I need the wainscot to wrap around into the opening. The creates the problem of transitioning from sloping to vertical as the wainscot turns the corner into the opening. The main reason why I thought of using a mass is so I could use actual wall types for the sloping walls and apply a sweep, but apparently that's not possible, so I'm not sure if I should even bother with a mass.

Any particular suggestions?

[douggodfrey]

It may depend on how detailed the wall needs to be. If you only need it for presentation/elevations, i would suggest a "solid blend" form where the base would be 20' square and the top 16' square with a height of 10' for example. You define the material in the properties dialogue. Then place a "void extrusion" form in the middle, approximately 6" narrower than the top boundary. You can add another "void extrusion" for the opening. this will show the material on all the exposed sides, vertical or battered. You would then add a wall to the inside to hide the exterior material and allow the door to be placed.

[patricks]

I see what you're saying, problem is this wainscot has a band running along the top as a sill and also in the middle, so those have to be sweeps.

What I have done so far is a sweep for the battered wall, with a void extrusion for the opening, and then split the faces of the battered wall at the required heights, so that I could pick the edge of the split face when doing the profile sweeps for the sill blocks. Then I did separate sweeps for the top and bottom halves of the wainscot (one 2" thick, one 4" thick) and then did separate vertical extrusions for the top and bottom halves of the wainscot where it turns inside the opening.

I may go back later and change the in-place walls to a mass with walls by face, so that the wall structure will show in plan and section views.

[douggodfrey]

I see your dilemma. if the sweeps need to project from the face, the split face would only give a change in material/color at the wainscot. You lost me on how you were able to get a sweep to attach the split face of the solid blend. when i use wall sweeps, they won't "grab" the split face. Did you use another method to attach the sweeps?

[patricks]

In elevation, I split the face of the battered wall at a measured height above the ground. Then in 3D I went to sketch path for the sweep, and picked the edges of the split face. The sketch lines were actually drawn on the ground level (the work plane for the sweep), and I set the Y-offset of the sweep profile to the height I needed.

The reason I used this method is because even though I can set the cut plane of the plan view at the height where I need the sweep, the sketch lines would not snap directly to the edge of the battered wall as it is not perpendicular to the plan view.