neeh help creating arched 3d solid

ok im having trouble drawing 3d solid....

lets say a square or a profiled mouldnig

trying to draw a 3d solid but arched... let's say 40in long and 11 high

i drew a square extruded it to 96in and now i need to do an arch out of it...

????

You can extrude along a polyline as the extrude path so draw your arch shape first.

Secondly draw your moulding shape seperately then use rotate3d to flip it 90 move to a corner onto your polyline path, you may need to work in a 3d view to see whats going on say vpoint 1,1,1

Then extrude I am pretty sure this is shown in the 3d tutorials/help its a common 3d exercise.

where would that be?

where would that be?

Tutorials? Check out the top left-hand corner of this webpage for starters.

In AutoCAD 2007 the user can Extrude, Loft or Sweep to create a solid.

For creating a moulding Extrude and Sweep would both work.

Here is a simple example of an arched object extruded along a line. The object is created out of polylines joined together. It is copied to a line using its midpoint. Then it is extruded using the Path option. The path, in this case, is the line.

Our object can be any sample you can create (ex. - a moulding).

A way i find nice and easy is i would draw the initial shape then turn it to a region and extrude to the desired legnth. Hope that helps too.

I tend to use polylines almost exclusively so I sometimes forget about Region. Region is ideal for those who tend to use lines more often than not.

Thanks for the sketch ReMark thats exactly what I was saying the path polyline can be quite complex, remember the rotate3d to flip your "moulding" shape

thx guys ive got it drew a polyline and worked fine thx again

Glad to hear you have it figured out Elektryk.

Thank you