curved roof

[msclark]

If any one at vectorworks is listeing - CURVED ROOFS AREN'T THAT UNCOMMON - anyhow, i've made a curved roof from an extruded poly but the walls are not trimming to fit it properly, any suggestions? thanks for the help, Matt

[Robert Anderson]

Can you explain (in more detail) the difficulty you are having?

[msclark]

Hi Robert, I am drawing a very simple airplane hanger building, it is a rectangle with a large radius curved roof with the curve pitching from north to south. The east and west walls will thus be trimmed to match the radius while the north and south walls will trim to match the heights (i could adjust these two to approximate the heights if need be). The fit walls to roof command won't work because it's not a roof and the model-solids commands cut a slot in the walls but don't trim them into two pieces. Does this help?

Thanks, Matt

[J. Johnson]

Matt-

I ran into the same problem while working on a renovation of a 1937 Deco movie theater. The main auditorum is under a curved roof. and the rear wall of the theater is curved itself. I ended up using the 3d reshape tool on the top of the wall and manually adding many points to the top of the wall to fit the extruded poly roof that I had created. The resulting model wasn't the cleanest thing I've seen, but it worked. You are right, having the ability to make a curved roof object would be helpful.

Good Luck-

Jake

[mike m oz]

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[msclark]

Thanks, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong but after watching the tutorial, I got it to work fine.