topic AEC Extended Walls with Skirting board and coving in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

AEC Extended Walls with Skirting board and coving

matt.wilmot — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:21:25 GMT

Hi..

Just a suggestion
It would be great to be able to add features such as coving, mid border rails and Bottom skirting boards to the Wall creation parameters, just to speed things up a bit.

How do you guys create skirting and coving quickly?

cheers
Matt

Re: AEC Extended Walls with Skirting board and coving

irishman_team_kilber — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:54:51 GMT

use the line tool with the snaps make sure they are snapping to vertex snap mode only checked/ticked then make sure the snaps are active then draw a line around the top of the wall but don't close the line then move the line down to the bottom of your wall add a sweep modifer this will create the Skirting board.

it's not the best way of doing it or you can use a line tool and create a shape of the way you want your Skirting board to be then use that line you created and merge it into your scene then you can use the sweep and create a custom shape.

If this makes any sense? it's hard to explain when i am giving the instructions from the video i am watching from lynda if you have access to the lynda then here is the link https://www.lynda.com/3ds-Max-tutorials/3ds-Max-Design-Visualization/383934-2.html the one i am watching is Shaping architectural moldings

Re: AEC Extended Walls with Skirting board and coving

matt.wilmot — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:24:44 GMT

Cheers kilber.

Re: AEC Extended Walls with Skirting board and coving

irishman_team_kilber — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:58:38 GMT

hopefully it made sense