help with AEC elements

[cepi11o]

Hi Everyone

Please Help,my project have an Aec Railing, the railing is round. How can I smooth the curves of an AEC element. Is Not a Solid, is a AEC Element

[David_W_Koch]

AEC Objects will represent curves with facets.  You can increase the number of facets used, to make the object appear smoother.

FACETDEV

http://docs.autodesk.com/ARCHDESK/2013/ENU/filesARCHDESK/GUID-91443EBD-2E12-44F2-9D87-89573008CC87.h...

The minimum number of facets for a full circle is 8.

FACETMAX

This sets the maximum number of facets for any one curve.  It can be used to enhance performance where you have a wide range of curve radii, allowing you to set a lower value for FACETDEV so that small radius objects look smoother while minimizing the performance hit on large radius objects.  You can set FACETMAX to a value from 100 to 10,000, inclusive.

[cepi11o]

thank you !! i undertand the command

but the problem in my project continues

i try facetdev, facetmax and aecfacetdev but nothing

in my aec element like wall o railing, no curves are increased

what am I doing wrong?

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

Some items, like Mass Elements in one of the standard shapes, like Cylinder, will react to changes in in the value of FacetDev.  Others, like Freeform Mass Elements, have their facets set based on the values for FACETDEV and FACETMAX at the time of creation, and will not adjust to subsequent changes.  You will have to recreate the latter objects with the revised FACETDEV and FACETMAX values active.

[dbroad]

To add to what David said, there will always be facets.  These objects will never be truly curved. The faceted geometry is programmed in.  The only thing you can do is make them appear smoother when needed or coarser to speed editing.

[cepi11o]

thanks!!!!!!

my problem is solved