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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: NHimages on November 18, 2015, 05:34:40 PM

Title: Help needed : How to create a facade of wooden batten with window and slope
Post by: NHimages on November 18, 2015, 05:34:40 PM
Hello here,

I have to create a facade of wooden batten (piece of wood, section L : 4cm x l : 4cm x height) on a surface merged from Sketchup. So I have all the surfaces of the walls who needs to have brackets on it, but I can't find a solution to use RC on it, and also create the window holes and the roof slopes.

I take a look into the RC documentation, I found tutorials wich could give an answer with clipping area but in this case I have to retrace all the splines for all the walls, and I have a lot others like this. I though it must be something with the segment applied on a surface (so I can pick all my walls from Sketchup) but I couldn't find a way to resolve the situation.

If someone as any tricks, it would be grateful.

Here is some exemple of my 3D, on the left just a diffuse maps of the desired result, on the middle the surface from Sketchup, and on the right the result with polys, but unchangeable...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13164187/envoi%20itoo.JPG

Thank you,

Hervé

Title: Re: Help needed : How to create a facade of wooden batten with window and slope
Post by: NHimages on November 18, 2015, 05:36:09 PM
Here is a zoom on the expected result:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13164187/envoi%20itoo-2.JPG
Title: Re: Help needed : How to create a facade of wooden batten with window and slope
Post by: Paul Roberts on November 18, 2015, 06:29:19 PM
Hi Hervé,

Thanks for contacting us. At the moment I'm afraid RailClone can't generate an array based solely on a surface. As you've mentioned you can however use a clipping spline to automatically generate the size of an array and remove the window apertures. To create these splines you might find the following steps help speed things up:

If each facade is a single multi sided polygon:
* Go to Polygon sub object level
* Select a facade
* Convert the face selection to edges by holding down Ctrl and clicking on Edge mode
(http://i.imgur.com/aobegoD.png)
* Click Create Shape from Selection and set the Shape Type to Linear
(http://i.imgur.com/Me7TJEA.png)
You should now have a boundary spline

If a facade is made from more than one poly you need to follow a slightly different procedure to generate the boundary splines.
* Go to Polygon sub object level
* Turn on Selection > By Angle to easily pick all the polygons on a facade
* Select a facade
* From the Ribbon tools hold down Shift and click Modify Selection > Outline
(http://i.imgur.com/e9ErFmk.png)
* Click Create Shape from Selection and set the Shape Type to Linear
(http://i.imgur.com/Me7TJEA.png)

You may also find the on Clipping Splines  (http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/RAILCLONE/6+-+How+to+use+Clipping+Splines)chapter from our Next Steps with RailClone guide helpful.

I hope that helps, please let me know if you have further questions.

Many thanks,

Paul
Title: Re: Help needed : How to create a facade of wooden batten with window and slope
Post by: NHimages on November 19, 2015, 11:09:23 AM
Hi Paul,

Thanks for your help, I'll try your solution when I have some time for it. But it seams a little bit complicated for my work because I have something like 50 different walls who needs to have wooden battens on it, so this could be use a lot of time.

I'll post the result here when I try your solution.

Thanks,

Hervé