great work xrok!

I am trying to find a way to model a curving bulnose cap that is going to be made out of brick. I wanted to know if others have done something like this and if you are using materials and dividing the arc up or if you are making components and stamping them in or what. I have a photo of a pool coping and a model of a fountain that show the situation that I am dealing with... any thoughts or help would be great.

Thanks
Bob

if you doubled the thickness of the tabletop you could recess the legs in the top and make a smooth outter surface. Just a thought.

do a google search for "soil profile" there are quite a few.

Thank You TIG that is perfect!

Just a quick question to find out if anyone knows of a work around for my problem. I am dealing with a large model that has road stripes, parking stripes, football fields with painted stripes, basketball courts, baseball fields, concrete with parterns... is there a way to convert a single line into a 2", 3", 4" thick colored stripe other than offsetting and outlining the line to create a face and then painting the face and turning the lines off? Just wondering if anyone has a solutiuon... if not I will be offseting and trimming a lot of linework in autocad and importing it into SU!

It does not need to be too exact, just need to export some renderings that show that the hourglass is filled... I guess I will try Sketchyphysics and see what happens. Thanks!

I don't know what the best place to post this question. I am trying to make a giant hourglass that would be filled with balls. My problem is how to represent the balls in the hourglass... and how to make that many objects and how to get them to "stack" in the hourglass. Should I look into sketchyphysics (drop the balls into the hourglass), ruby scripts, any ideas? Any help would be great... I normally deal with landscape stuff so this is a little out of my comfort zone.

Bob

Thanks Al these are going to be great!

thanks Gaieus that clarifies my question.