Steve S.

@VIRTUALENVIRONS Well Paul, you certainly had a better hunch on what @rouan was looking for. Your methods and the other method by @Benson Shaw are just what the doctor ordered. Throw that logarithmic nonsense out the door!! LOL

@VIRTUALENVIRONS Thanks Paul, Your videos are always great to watch. I agree with you on deform. It really is not something I am going to use very much either as in the case of what I did above. It really was a freehand way of going about it. Bend on top of bend with no coordinates typed in, blah blah. You know what I mean. No precision with that example. But, it was the first thing that popped into my mind, so I went with it. LOL The second method was something I played with first in Plasticity, and then figured how to do it using Vectorworks.

@VIRTUALENVIRONS Hi Paul, Yes there are definitely a number of ways to do this from looking at everything in this string. It’s hard for me to determine exactly what @rouan is looking for as I didn’t see a good plan view of the curve he wanted. It could be something that looks kind of like a spiral for all I know but is more or less, just a freehand curve of sorts. I don’t know the underpinnings of how the Helix-Spiral tool works. But to me, what I like about the tool is it appears to be making a beautiful Logarithmic Spiral. Whatever it is, it is something that I would personally find time consuming to try and make by dragging handles. In my case I figure, leave it up to the computer to do what computers do better than me. https://archive.lib.msu.edu/crcmath/math/math/l/l383.htm

@rouan Different Shaped Spirals

@rouan So if you do decide to use a spiral for the plan view shape of your curved rake wall, then to dial in the shape, and length you want along that spiral, you're going to have to do a little bit of trial and error or number of iterations to get what you want. It’s a process that might take 5 or 10 minutes or maybe even longer to get that particular shape and length. In the video below, I begin the process by adjusting the START RADIUS. Later on in the video I dial in the END RADIUS. You could see in the video that I don’t move at the speed of light. I’m not a fast user of any interface now days. Would be terrible as a CAD draftsman. So as this is a realtime recording by a slow user, it is feasible for anybody to do this in the same length of time if not faster. Now even though I am slow at the keyboard and UI, I am still able to get a shape I like and a length of 14’-4” (along the spiral) in about 4-1/2 minutes Once I have that dialed in, in the dialog box for the Helix-Spiral, I would DESELECT the FLATTEN, and do as shown in the previous post video. All in all, the 2 stage process could take as little or less than 10 minutes to come up with a 3D model of a curved rake wall. The basic procedure in the below video is — Use the HELIX-SPIRAL tool UNGROUP to see the length UNDO and try again ITERATIVE PROCESS for SPIRAL.mov

@rouan Curved Rake Wall How To.mov

@rouan I am curious to know it you are looking for a spiral shape such as this The spiral was made with a helix tool. So I think it will probably have a smoother shape than trying to drag around bezier handles. The flat spiral at the base (outer side) is 4401mm. So it is 1mm over what you show in the original post The overall height is 4413mm. So this is 23mm over what you show in the original post. The thickness of the wall is 101mm FOR THE MOVIE AT THE BOTTOM, MAKE SURE TO PRESS THE RESIZE BUTTON SHOWN BELOW UNTIL I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE A SMALLER SIZE MOVIE Spiral with viewpoints 2.mov

@rouan Curved Rake Wall.mov

@Shortnort If you create a brand new file without anything in it. Then make a rectangle and slab from that How does it work ?

@Shortnort I wanted to see if increasing the slope would make a difference. 2nd Drainage.mov

@Shortnort Sorry to hear of the hangup. It appears to be something with your particular setup as I had no problem with the below For what it is worth, I am using an entry level 2017 MacBook Pro and the latest version of VW Designer Slab Drainage.mov

@jmhanby As @Tom W. mentioned SHADED above Would this work for you ? This is a Porsche out of the Resource Manager. It was done using SHADED and not Hidden Line So in Shaded Options, turn off COLORS If you want to see the inside of the car, TEXTURES should be SELECTED If you do not want to see inside the car, TEXTURES should NOT BE SELECTED

@mikeakar TWINMOTION Make sure you bump up the QUALITY to the highest setting for all of the below videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtneJif1KA&list=PL6jXt5vX3A7Ph-ckrGBB4IVWDFDPMXQA3&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebdoW9xBKcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pihNxzLfos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9E4V6CzTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32banPwKTnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx7uQAX55uI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyaT7jga9Jk

@ParkerJames Maybe something is defiled with that texture? What happens when you change the glass texture to a different clear glass? Maybe like one of the below textures?

@ParkerJames I played around with putting a sheet of glass in front of some furniture I'm using an entry level 2017 MacBook Pro, so it is to underpowered to use Redshift, thought I did try it. Using Redshift, I got a strange refraction or something like that. But the glass was relatively clear. Below is what I got using Final Quality and Custom Renderworks The first picture is a clear blue GLASS texture that I changed the color of slightly to something greener. The second picture is a stained GLASS texture that I edited the Color Image Effects, Transparency Transmission, and the Scale under Render in Object Info Palette Nothing Blurry in either case below. A bit of haze. But nothing blurry. In your case, I wonder if Redshift is acting up? Out of curiosity, did you try using Final Quality Renderworks?