! Help ... modelling a path wth gradient

haynesc

hi all ...

i have a model here and i wish to model a path between the walls on the section plain i have drawn ...

not sure how to go about this ...

any help is appreciated

thanks

model.skp

Gaieus

Hi Chris,

I am not really sure what you wish - so just went ahead and did what I thought. Please, let me know if I guessed at least partly well.

model.skp

haynesc

i want to cut a ramp through the walls i have setup ...

Gaieus

Would this be a slanting path (with those numbers as heights)?

haynesc

yeah ... exacty

Gaieus

You could build the path (with its variwed elevations) as a straight one then draw the curved line and use Chris Fullmer's Shape Bender Plugin to bend the path to the curve. Wherever it incidentally goes into the walls, you could simply intersect and delete the unwanted part.

TIG

If you have the four 'sides' of each piece of path - two ends and two side 'rails' - you could use ExtrudeEdgesByRailsV2 to form the paths, and as long as those four bits are all Curves [Weld them if not] then it will make a proper triangulated mesh that will fill in between them.
You can make the long 'rails' by intersecting the walls with a tilted plane. The ends don't need to be 'flat' on this plane to match them, with EEbyRails it will make the mesh to suit whatever...

decipher

great answer TIG