Sweep modifier - intersections

[Stephen Thomas]

I'm trying to sweep a channel section along a grid for a facade. As you can see the corners get mitred but the t-junctions and crossing parts do not. Any way I can do this without resorting to manually mitring all the joints?

 

Edit: all lines have a vertex at each junction and all vertices are welded.

Edited March 18, 2009 by stef.thomas

[Stephen Thomas]

Sorted it! Just approached it in a different way, using rectangles and a perimeter line with an L-shape on the sweep instead. Thought I'd post the result in case it's of use to anyone else.

[SandmanNinja]

Yup - sometimes changing how you set up the model can help heaps.

 

Good stuff and thanks for sharing.

[danb4026]

How did you get the sweeps on the windows to merge with the sweep on the perimeter rectangle?

[Stephen Thomas]

Seperate splines. The window parts are instances and the perimeter sweep is a seperate spline with the vertices offset from the window modules by the required amount. Obviously I mirrored the L-shaped section on the outer part too.