sloped wall reveals

[FMAGULLO1]

Hello all

 

Does anybody know how to create slopped reveals on a wall.

I have tried it by placing a work plane on the face of the wall, and used a void form- void sweep combination, but when I press finish sweep, this message appears

 

This Mass has no solid geometry for its Void Forms to cut. They must be deleted, or solid geometry added and cut.

 

Please, let me know if you can help

 

Thank you

 

Francisco

Edited December 16, 2008 by FMAGULLO1
didn't read right

[chiquito]

any image to see what you are looking for?

[FMAGULLO1]

Hi Martin

I enclosed a jpeg of the wall (it is just a basic wall). I have figured out out to do horizontal and vertical reveals. However, I seem to get no where with the sloped ones

Let me know if you can help

Thanks

Francisco

[STRAT]

one thread will do please

[chiquito]

I would do as follows, If I understand correctlly what you want.

Draw splines, tracing drawing of wall, edit spline, attach all of them into one, extrude.

Convert to editable poly.

vertex select, move vertices adjusting slope to choice.

for the reveals, inset polygons, adjusting local, and either extrude in or out, depending on what you want. If bevel is needed, same procedure.

Hope it helps.

Share pict,

Cheers

martin

[FMAGULLO1]

Hi Martin:

Let me see if I can put it together

 

Thank you very much

 

Francisco

[FMAGULLO1]

Hi Martin:

I got it. I used an in place family for the wall, and used the void sweep for the reveal. Being new at this, my main problem was that I'm just starting to work with the massing, and was trying to add the sweeps to my in place family (wall), after finishing the massing (of the wall), and without first editing the mass.

Anyway, thank you for your help

I enclosed a jpeg of my practice wall

 

Francisco

[chiquito]

for nex time, boolean and bump map?

looks nice

M.

[Tim Lusername]

HI

 

I'm a noob but I've just been playing around with stuff like this and I've found that if you select the wall you want to modify and pick "edit profile" on the options bar then you can sketch any sort of opening shapes you want - hit finish sketch and you get the results.

 

Any use or have I missed the point totally?

 

Tim