Victor S Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Hi Guys, what would be the best way to create a circular ramp to connect parking floors? Thank you Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Popular Post Matt Panzer Posted April 5, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2019 You could try using a sweep. In a front view, create the profile shape and place a locus to define the center of the sweep. Select them both, use the Sweep command (in the Model menu). Make sure to give the sweep a pitch. The pitch is the change in height of the sweep when swept 360º. If you sweep 180º, the ramp will go up half the pitch. The profile and locus before creating the sweep: The sweep with a 180º sweep angle and 24' pitch: 9 Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted April 6, 2019 Share Posted April 6, 2019 Nice one, Matt! Haven't seen this ramp question since Islandmon answered similar one about 10 years ago! (same excellent answer!) -B Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted April 7, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 7, 2019 On 4/5/2019 at 11:22 PM, Benson Shaw said: Nice one, Matt! Haven't seen this ramp question since Islandmon answered similar one about 10 years ago! (same excellent answer!) Thanks Benson! Yup. This question does come up once in a (long) while. Of course, more complex shapes can be created with newer 3D modeling tools, but sweeps are great for these simple regular shapes and make changing the geometry very easy. Quote Link to comment
Ride Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Slightly off topic, but where is the best place to learn about some of these newer 3D modelling tools? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Matt Panzer Posted April 8, 2019 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted April 8, 2019 19 hours ago, Ride said: Slightly off topic, but where is the best place to learn about some of these newer 3D modelling tools? Here's an excellent webinar from from Luis Ruiz (one of our architectural product specialists). I only took a quick skim through this but it looks like it covers practically everything very well: https://www.vectorworks.net/inspiration/industry-webinars/the-art-and-function-of-3d-modeling This looks very good as well. It's organized into chapters so you can easily navigate to the parts you're interested in. BTW: There are three chapters on ramps and ledges: https://www.vectorworks.net/training/2017/getting-started-guides/freeform-modeling Quote Link to comment
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