topic Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max? in 3ds Max Modeling Forum

Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:28:56 GMT

I'm looking for a way to change my wall joins from a standard butt join to a mitre cut where the walls are cut on a 45 degree angle.
Is there a simple way to do this within Max? I understand I'll most likely need to do this manually to each joing one by one but I'm fairly new to modelling so someone may need to ELI5 what exactly I need to do.

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

kgokhangurbuz — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:30:30 GMT

Hi,

You can use Sweep Modifier for this, it always connects as miter cuts.

You can set your wall height, width etc in sweep also, as i did in the screenshot below;

Left one is AEC Extended > Wall object, Right one is Sweep modifier applied to a Spline. You can also set the justification of your profile from the Sweep Parameters Rollout. I think this is the best way for miter joints as fast as possible.

Best regards;

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 01:49:33 GMT

Fantastic! Thank you.

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

paulneale — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:53:18 GMT

Or Spline, Extrude Modifier, Shell. You can turn off Cap Start and Cap End in the Extrude Modifier and adjust the thinkness of the walls with the Shell. Splines can also be booleaned together to create the shapes that you need for the floor plan.

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

kgokhangurbuz — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:59:27 GMT

Exactly, but there might be issues with Spline > Extrude > Shell modifier such as in image-1 below, so i preferred to not to mention it.

Best regards;

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

paulneale — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:39:13 GMT

Yes that is the drawback if you need to add verts in the walls.

Re: Is there a way to have walls joins be mitre cut in 3Ds Max?

kgokhangurbuz — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:43:42 GMT

Exactly. But still, for non complex plans, extrude and shell operations can
be applied. 🙂