Help making wall
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Hi guys,
First post here, not exactly new to SketchUp, I've been using it for a few years for basic stuff. I can usually get most things down, but I can not for the life of me get the wall I'm trying to make work in SketchUp. I've made it in Revit, but after Revit became unusable with the wall in it I had to revert to SketchUp so I could get some sort of model.
As you'll see in the picture I'm having a problem with the wall in SketchUp bowing when I try to make it. To make the wall in SketchUp I traced the base from an AutoCAD Drawing then extruded it to the height of the top point. From there I selected the horizontal line on the bottom and pulled it down to where it needed to be; causing a bulge. I know it's doing it because it has a shorter distance to go, and therefore it needs to go somewhere.
I tried exporting it from Revit into 3ds then into SketchUp, that works, but then there are a billion faces and that won't work for rendering.
I also tried extruding the shape, then intersecting a plane. the problem with that is for the plane to cover the whole thing it had ended up cutting the point that's supposed to be the top down.
Here are the pictures. The gray one is the one from Revit, which I'm trying to recreate. The white one is made in SketchUp and has the bulge.
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advice from the bar:
search for a plugin called CurviShear by fredo. part of fredoTools.the Europeans should be getting up soon tho.. probably better help from them
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I concur with Jeff. Weld the curves before running Curvishear. Then you will need curviloft "skinning of shapes". Afterward you will likely need to show hidden geometry and use the soften/smooth window to harden edges, and then orient faces might be necessary.
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Quite a few ways to do this, but if you are all talking plugins, Shape Bender is another.
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@box said:
Quite a few ways to do this, but if you are all talking plugins, Shape Bender is another.
scf is where plugin recommendations are acceptable and even encouraged.. Trimble forums is where the purist approach is tops.
idk, personally i usually just do whichever way I think is fastest or easiest
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@unknownuser said:
personally i usually just do whichever way I think is fastest or easiest
Sure life is too short!
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I've forgotten the "purist" way to do this.
But I forget a lot of things... -
Thank you guys! I ended up going the Shape Bender route. I'm going to mess around with Curvishear just to see how that works as well.
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