Hi all,
I'm working on a roof based family for tapered insulation crickets and am starting to get very discouraged.
I've attached a napkin sketch of what i'm trying to do. The middle portion of this very large cricket is simple. a blend attached to a few reference planes, no problem. The sides are becoming a much bigger hassle. It seems like the easiest solution would be to use another blend, or swept blend, but i have no control over the orientation of the profiles from the path.
The second attached image shows where i have gotten so far. The only way I can get the first profile to "match" the adjacent angled face is to have the path dead end perpendicular to it. If the path is straight from left to right (which is correct for the geometry I'm trying to create) then the profiles are parallel.
Am I missing something?? Is there a better method for creating this geometry? I'm getting very frustrated with the solid modeling tools, although I'm biased since I come from a SU background.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
-LP