After watching the introductory videos, I started experimenting with curvilinear walls. Now I need to put an opening - not a door, just an opening - in one of those walls. Inserting a doorway is easy, but it's rectilinear. Selecting the opening and right-clicking does not give a "curve" option.
Anyone?
TIA
rh
select door
click on properties
top of list; shape; click and select arched door top from drop down list (in place of rectangular)
picture changes
click OK
Thanks for the info, Doug; but it's not the arched top I'm having trouble with. What I want is an opening that is curvilinear in its front and rear planes, not the top plane. The doorway - no door, just an opening - is placed in a wall that has curved faces (interior and exterior sides, in TFP parlance, I think).
It seems that if one can curve a wall, one should also be able to curve door openings and window openings in said wall.
Thanks again for the help.
rh
I now understand what you mean and a curved opening in a curved wall seems reasonable....I've never tried it...maybe I'll get inspired to try in TFP.
I know I could create a .3ds object in that shape....with an opening that is curved....quite easy in other 3D programs.
Thinking out loud....perhaps if you make a wall, add an opening, then apply a curve to the wall the opening will change with it or maybe TFP allows us to curve an opening much like a wall? Needs some experimenting.
Thanks for the idea, Doug. I'll try drawing the wall and inserting the opening before creating the curve to see what happens.
The older I get, the harder it seems to be to think out of the box.
rh
You should be able to drop the opening straight in. See the post on "Inserting a rectangular niche...."
Allan
but I haven't figured out from it how to put a doorway in a curvilinear wall.
I can do it in SketchUp therefore I can import it (assuming I get all the geometry correct), but I can't figure out from what you wrote how to make a concave/convex doorway.
Thanks again for all your help.
rh
You are probably looking for something hard. All you do is select the wall, right click, select curve and drag it out (but I assume you have done that). So just select the window, door, opening and click into the wall and select right click Finish. The only other thing you may have to do is to change the appearance of the Opening so that it is the same texture as the wall.
You do need to curve the wall first. It will lose the window/door if you put that in first and then curve the wall.
Allan
Thanks, Allan.
I tried doing as you suggested with an Opening, but when I right-clicked and chose Finish, the opening vanished.
I can put a Door in the wall, but not and Opening.
rh
I had no trouble with Openings of all shapes and sizes but doors and windows had to be slightly wider than the thickness of the wall (for thick walls obviously) otherwise they placed on the outside of the wall.
Have you got Hardware Acceleration on? That sometimes causes odd issues on some PCs. It you have try turning it off and see if that helps.
Allan