Chain Link Fence

[chstech]

What is the best way to make a chain link fence? i need to make a 6' high fence line with posts spaced every 20'. It also has a 12' swinging door section.

AND of course in 3d. I did a search in the fourms and have not found much.

Thanks

[CipesDesign]

Use extruded circles for the posts. Then extrude a very skinny reatange (or maybe even a line! for the actual fence. If you search through the "metal" textures you will find something (probably) close enough for the actual chain link (try the "metal-stainless steel mesh" turned 45?, and adjusted for size/scale). Use it on the extruded fence... Good luck, have fun & Merry Christmas!

[Robert Anderson]

If the posts don't need to be circular, you might consider using a [no kidding with the name] chain extrude object. Draw a vertical line for the chain-link part first, then draw a rectangle for the posts. Give the vertical line a grid texture from the Renderworks procedural textures.

[chstech]

I have already created the fence i need by the painstakingly process of extruding, polylines, and 45 deg rotations. I unfortunately cannot use the line extrude with texture for two reasons, 1- with this extrude you cannot see thru the fence, 2- most of the drawings i work on we do not render and therefor the texture would not show up.

I was hoping there was a Fence Tool much like the Wall Tool that would make life simple. Especially when desgining landscape, what do most people do?? Create a fence from scratch? I know you can make a Roadway & a Guardrail, but no fence? Please tell me i am wrong.

Robert, maybe this is something that can be on the "In The Near future" list.

Thanks

[Petri]

Drew -

Until a Fence Tool is available, create the fence in 2D like this:

- front view

- rectangle with no fill

- "bucket hatch", ie. Hatch command

- extrude rectangle and hatch by, say, 5 mm

[chstech]

Petri, That might work but unfortunately i need 3d.

Insert my sad face here.

[mike m oz]

chstech - read Petri's last post again. His method does work. All you need is a 45? cross hatch that has no background fill.

[Petri]

It does indeed - except that I forgot the important step of ungrouping the hatch.

I have somewhere a simple "fence tool" that creates a series of vertical 3D-polygons of given height based on mouse clicks in any view (also plan with 3D-loci as the bottom-rail or post reference). Another version makes walls in the same fashion.

Theoretically I could probably make a modern path object based on those, but I don't for the time being have a need for one myself and no-one wants to pay for anything... Besides, a certain Mr. NNA might just copy the idea and include it in the next release of VW.