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Create slanted and tapered walls.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
3 min.
Tutorial resources
These downloadable resources will be used to complete this tutorial:
Transcript
00:03
Looking at the walls around the tower of this project, currently,
00:07
they are vertical.
00:08
But as a design feature,
00:10
we would like the walls to slope outwards as they rise up the tower.
00:14
So to achieve this,
00:16
we'll select the walls around the outside of the tower.
00:18
So holding down the control key, whilst picking the walls to multiple,
00:22
select all of them.
00:31
And now looking in the properties palette,
00:34
we have the cross section definition panel
00:37
and we can see the cross section is currently set to vertical.
00:41
So from the drop down list,
00:43
I'll change this to be slanted.
00:46
And beneath this, we have the angle from vertical,
00:49
which is currently zero degrees.
00:51
So let's change this from zero to be 10 degrees.
00:55
Now I'll move my mouse back over the view to apply those settings.
00:60
And we can now see all of the walls that we had selected around. The tower
01:03
are slanted by 10 degrees and are sloping outwards as they rise up the tower.
01:11
This looks a little bit too extreme.
01:12
So let's change that slant angle to five degrees and see how that looks.
01:19
And I think it needs to be somewhere in between So
01:22
that set the angle to eight degrees.
01:25
And yes, this looks good.
01:26
So we'll leave it at eight degrees and this
01:29
will be a good design feature for our project
01:35
to show how we can control this plant a bit more.
01:37
We'll open up this section view upon the section.
01:41
I'm looking at the wall to the right of the view that's containing the pond water.
01:46
We'll select this wall
01:48
and in the property's palette
01:49
will change its cross section
01:52
to slanted
01:55
and then we'll change the angle from vertical
01:58
to five degrees and then apply this to the wall.
02:03
And we can see that it slants inwards towards the water.
02:07
So now we'll go back to the properties palette
02:08
and we'll change it to a negative five degrees.
02:11
And we can see that that now slants outwards. So
02:14
using positive or negative numbers will control
02:17
the direction in which the wall slots
02:21
looking in the view.
02:22
We could see that we have temporary dimensions and a grip at the top
02:25
of the ball that we can use to control the slant angle too.
02:29
So for example, if we click on the temporary dimension
02:33
and change its value here, so they've set this to be negative 10 degrees.
02:38
And we can see that adjust as it would do
02:40
as if we were changing it in the properties palette.
02:43
Alternatively,
02:45
we could just drag the control at the top of the wall
02:48
which will adjust the angle
02:49
and be a bit more interactive in the model when doing so.
Video transcript
00:03
Looking at the walls around the tower of this project, currently,
00:07
they are vertical.
00:08
But as a design feature,
00:10
we would like the walls to slope outwards as they rise up the tower.
00:14
So to achieve this,
00:16
we'll select the walls around the outside of the tower.
00:18
So holding down the control key, whilst picking the walls to multiple,
00:22
select all of them.
00:31
And now looking in the properties palette,
00:34
we have the cross section definition panel
00:37
and we can see the cross section is currently set to vertical.
00:41
So from the drop down list,
00:43
I'll change this to be slanted.
00:46
And beneath this, we have the angle from vertical,
00:49
which is currently zero degrees.
00:51
So let's change this from zero to be 10 degrees.
00:55
Now I'll move my mouse back over the view to apply those settings.
00:60
And we can now see all of the walls that we had selected around. The tower
01:03
are slanted by 10 degrees and are sloping outwards as they rise up the tower.
01:11
This looks a little bit too extreme.
01:12
So let's change that slant angle to five degrees and see how that looks.
01:19
And I think it needs to be somewhere in between So
01:22
that set the angle to eight degrees.
01:25
And yes, this looks good.
01:26
So we'll leave it at eight degrees and this
01:29
will be a good design feature for our project
01:35
to show how we can control this plant a bit more.
01:37
We'll open up this section view upon the section.
01:41
I'm looking at the wall to the right of the view that's containing the pond water.
01:46
We'll select this wall
01:48
and in the property's palette
01:49
will change its cross section
01:52
to slanted
01:55
and then we'll change the angle from vertical
01:58
to five degrees and then apply this to the wall.
02:03
And we can see that it slants inwards towards the water.
02:07
So now we'll go back to the properties palette
02:08
and we'll change it to a negative five degrees.
02:11
And we can see that that now slants outwards. So
02:14
using positive or negative numbers will control
02:17
the direction in which the wall slots
02:21
looking in the view.
02:22
We could see that we have temporary dimensions and a grip at the top
02:25
of the ball that we can use to control the slant angle too.
02:29
So for example, if we click on the temporary dimension
02:33
and change its value here, so they've set this to be negative 10 degrees.
02:38
And we can see that adjust as it would do
02:40
as if we were changing it in the properties palette.
02:43
Alternatively,
02:45
we could just drag the control at the top of the wall
02:48
which will adjust the angle
02:49
and be a bit more interactive in the model when doing so.
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