Tanner Shelton Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 I'm about to start recreating a venue for one of our events. This venue has trim everywhere! All over the walls in every blank space it is filled with a square or rectangle or some other shape of trim. How would you handle adding all of this trim? What is the most efficient way? I have been going through and creating the profile of the trim and then extruding it along a path to create the trim. Which hasn't been a huge deal for ones where there is trim in about 10 placed, but this will be hundreds, meaning I would have to fix every item after extruding along the path as well. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 This plugin might help: https://andreafacchinello.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/baseboard-v1-0/ Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 First question to as is why you need the trim. If you really need it in 3D because you are concerned about clearances or shadows, they you will have to create it all. However if it is really just going to be background in renderings, I would consider drawing it in 2D export to an image and create a texture for each wall. Probably only slightly less work than doing 3D models, but it will keep you file much lighter and probably improve rendering speeds. Quote Link to comment
Tanner Shelton Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 I'm not too worried about rendering times. The machine I have has been handling it well. I usually recreate the venue to the best of my ability to help sell the realism with all of the details. I do renders of events for clients. Quote Link to comment
Guest Wes Gardner Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 If you want to see it, build it...EAP (Extrude Along Path) is probably the quickest. Any repeats can be made into symbols. Have fun! Wes Quote Link to comment
SEStone Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 (edited) I, too, would like to see corner boards be an option when joining walls. Window and doors have the option to have trim, roofs have fascia options, why not the walls. 100% of all my projects have a water table, corner boards (both interior and exterior corners) and frieze boards. I currently extrude all these on a "trim" layer, very time consuming and not exactly top of the line BIM. Steven Edited September 29, 2023 by SEStone typo Quote Link to comment
Anna M. Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Just picking up on this old thread and wondering whether skirting boards are likely to become an additional option for walls in future. Doors have an architrave option so it would be great to be able to tick a box for skirting boards too rather than draw them individually. Thank you, Anna Quote Link to comment
rDesign Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 There have been a handful of wishlist requests and related threads about this question. Several posted below, feel free to follow the links and vote them up: Quote Link to comment
Geo-Tect Posted October 18 Share Posted October 18 I’ve dabbled with different ways to handle baseboards and wall trim myself… One method that sometimes works if you have a simple floor plan where the walls are generally consistent heights throughout is to create a baseboard “component” in the wall style itself. so for example, if you need a 4 inch baseboard add a three-quarter inch component and then change the top offset to drop it down so it only reflects 4 inches high three dimensionally. obviously, this only works for simple rectangular base components, but in my case it’s generally enough just for a reference, and you can create a class for the baseboard and turn it on or off as needed, and it intersects/joins components just like any other wall component. generally works in most cases for me 2 Quote Link to comment
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