How to build a wall with VERTICAL slope

[mmkhan]

Hello All!
           Currently i am working on an office building project. In building elevation and in some interiors I want to build a vertical slop wall. Can anybody have any idea.
The height and the width varies. The train is leveled no slop is involved.
Hope that you guys help me out.

Regards

Mohsin

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Mohsim,

Sorry to answer you question with questions, but I am not quite clear what you are trying to do. 

Do you mean that the top of the wall slopes from one end to the other or is the wall actually leaning over? 

You said the height and width varies - do you mean the wall is thinner at the top than it is at the bottom and boths side slope up to this thin top?  Does it also slope from end to end?

Which version are you using? V14 has additional tools that could make this easy depending what exactly you are trying to do.

Allan

[mmkhan]

Dear Allan!
              I dont want a wall top slop.

The wall is actually leaning. Hope that now you can understand. Looking forward

[mmkhan]

Dear Allan!
               Sorry for incomplete answer in response of your reply.

The wall is actually leaning. The size of the wall does't mean that wall is thin at bottom or at top. I am using V12. 

Regards

Mohsin

[Doug.S]

if you search this forum, I posted answers to "retaining" walls that may give you some tips

maybe if you made a sketch (use microsoft paint or any other program) and posted it we could help better as the "problem" description is not quite clear to me

or you can do what you can in TFP that is close but not correct, mark up the TFP render to point out what needs to be fixed.

[Voodooman]

Hi

an old tip from V11 for a sloping wall is to use the roof tool and texture it as a wall and for windows insert veluxes.

For a sloping glass wall make the surface transparent and add beams for the glass bars.

Regards

Peter

[Allan Chesney]

Hi Mohsin,

Sorry about the delay in replying - I must have missed you previous post. You may have already applied Doug or Peter' suggestions in the meantime - both work quite well. 

If you have not already done it then there are some other solutions too:

If there are no windows or doors then it would be easy to use the Decorative Member in Interior Accessories/Decorative.  This is for used as a timber beam but there is no reason why you cannot enlarge it to the size of a wall and change the appearance to brick or whatever, as in the image below (right hand side).  The advantage of this element is that you can set it to any angle.  In the image I have just changed the X axis to 10 degrees.

If you are using V14 then you could also use the new Surfaces tool and use the roof, floor or ceiling option to create a sloping wall. On the image the left hand one is a floor surface.  This has the advantage that you can cut holes in it but the more you slope it the sharper the upper and lower edges taper. I have sunk the lower one into the tiled floor.  If you use the roof Surface you can also add skylights but you must do this before you make it slope.  Leave the slope set to zero - insert the skylight then change the degree of slope and the skylight will stay in place.

If you require doors and windows, then another option is to just draw just the wall you want to slope (in a new blank project), insert the doors and windows, turn off the Terrain and File/Export as a 3DS.  You can then File/Import using the Wizard and you can then tilt it to the angle you want. It will be a single object but you should still be able to set textures and colours etc.  It will not behave as a wall however, other walls will not connect to it for example.

If you can not follow any of those just ask again.

Allan