billgore Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 What is everyone doing to model Metal Roof Decking? Got a Project that has Metal Open web Steel Joist and I want to show a 1 1/2" metal Roof Deck on top of that. Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Use the Framing Member to create the joists, then you can use the framing member again to create the decking, if you create a custom profile for that. The custom profile should equal one sheet of decking. If you needed to, you could count them. http://learn.archoncad.com/?s=Framing+Member&submit=Search Quote Link to comment
billgore Posted July 20, 2016 Author Share Posted July 20, 2016 Okay how do you create the custom profile so that I can use it over and over again, or modify to make another deck profile? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) the trick is to create a 2D shape for the custom profile and save it as a symbol Edited July 20, 2016 by Jonathan Pickup Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Hi, If you are just after the decking then you just draw the profile in section and extrude it. Give it some texture then cut it up as needed. Quote Link to comment
Stephanie Poole Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 What about a corrugated deck with slope? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted December 16, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 16, 2018 Not everyone will agree, but in my opinion, extrusions of sine-like curves is not the way to go. Just create a slab or roof face in (say) a 2" thickness or whatever your actual material describes, then apply a standard corrugated texture to it. You can add a parallel-lines surface hatch for HL rendering, See image. Actual geometry will negatively affect render times in all forms of rendering. 2 Quote Link to comment
Boh Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 1 hour ago, Robert Anderson said: Not everyone will agree, but in my opinion, extrusions of sine-like curves is not the way to go. Just create a slab or roof face in (say) a 2" thickness or whatever your actual material describes, then apply a standard corrugated texture to it. You can add a parallel-lines surface hatch for HL rendering, See image. I agree. Only draw back is that cross sections of the decking will not show the roof profile or is there a way to do that with roof styles? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted December 17, 2018 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 17, 2018 This can be done with roof styles, sort of. You can make an undulating tile fill (similar to insulation), but it won't be direction sensitive (i.e. it will section the same way both longitudinally and transverse.) Quote Link to comment
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