spittle Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 I have a wall that is cladded with a corrogate sheeting. I modeled a large sheet by drawing a spline profile, then array, then extrude. I then used railclone to make this follow another spline drawn on the edge of my roof. Problem is the sheet now intersects the ground. I need it to terminate. So I either need a good method to slice against the ground surface or a way to project my polygons down to the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 What program are you using that has a RailClone command? Can't you slice the sheet using a surface? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Railclone is a plugin. It is just a quicker way to arrive at placing the cladding along a path ad dealing with the vertical slicing at the corners of the building. And can collapse to editable poly and work from there. Another way to explain is that my corrogate material needs to be vertical but the elevation of the paths marking the top and the bottom vary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Well unless we have a representative DWG file to work with it would be difficult to say exactly what method would work best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 I'm using 3ds max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Dratz! My bad. I saw the words "3D Modelling" and erroneously thought "AutoCAD". I apologize for the mix up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Can you provide some screen shots? I'm having a hard time visualizing what you're trying to do. Can you use Quick Slice? Or maybe Boolean using the "Union" option? That would give you a slice along the ground surface and then you could delete the polygons you don't need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Hi I used quickslice but say I need to edit this and lower part of the wall and it needs to meet a surface that is at a different angle - I now have hundreds of verts. A way to select certain verts and project down would be handy. No screens at the mo unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 A way to select certain verts and project down would be handy. What about using the Align tool? Select the verts you want to project down Click the "Align" button on your toolbar Click on the surface you want the verts to align with Set your "Align" preferences You may have to do a little tweaking afterwards, but the Align tool should get you most of the way there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 19, 2013 Author Share Posted November 19, 2013 Thanks for the suggestion. If the lower surface is more complex then it doesn't work unfortunately. I've found a workable solution - a means to project would be better and quicker but what I did was: - select the lower edge loop of cladding (on my model there is about 30 edges hence why a means to project all of them would have been great) - extract as shape - use itoo glue plugin to glue to the 'lower surface' - it's free: http://www.itoosoft.com/freeplugins/glue.php - it will create a new spline on the lower surface. Extrude that downwards so that geo is below lower surface - called 'new surface' - select cladding, add new new surface - bridge - then delete the polys that are below the lower surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted November 19, 2013 Share Posted November 19, 2013 Interesting plugin. I'll have to remember that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 Yeah all of their plugins are really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittle Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 On a similar note - if I had created my walls using simple polygons rather than the pre modeled sheets - would there be a way to slice equally spaced vertical edges around the perimeter wall polys of the house? Connect would work if the top and bottom of the wall were horizontal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 To be honest, I don't use Max all that much anymore, but maybe the Loop tools might work: http://docs.autodesk.com/3DSMAX/15/ENU/3ds-Max-Help/index.html?url=files/GUID-C1D508AB-A3E5-4965-AAE3-4FA5EC48CA75.htm,topicNumber=d30e125533 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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