Dimensioned Profiles For Stonework Mouldings

[Lewis.Young]

Hi All,

I'm looking at doing some work for a friend of mine who's a stone mason. He want's me to be able to provide renders of certain features so that he can show customers the different options.

One thing i want to do is create some standard mould profiles so that i can sweep them. (see profiles below)

However, i'm finding it quite hard to find any dimensioned profiles online. Has anybody had experience with this before or can offer additional advice/info on this?

Thanks

Lewis Young
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[Cadmanto]

That is because most contractors just want the overall's

Truthfully, take a sketch pad and pencil to Home Depot and measure what you need.  Or purchase a 2" long section of each to bring home and do the same.  That is what I would do.

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[pball · Accepted solution]

If this is just for visuals and those profiles are the ones you want. It should be easy to add that picture to a sketch and trace the profiles. There is at least one handy guide on using images as sketch references around the forum.

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

Those images might be all  you need.

I would

place an image of one of the profiles on a sketch.  Sketch a line over a known distance on the image.

Enter the known dimension for the line - the image will resize to 1:1 scale.

Start a new sketch and trace over the image. I would turn the new sketch into a Sketch Block.

Repeat for each image profile.

Once done I would delete the image sketches.

To get really sophisticated - put these profiles into Content Center for Frame Generator.

[Lewis.Young]

Thanks for the responses guys, much appreciated! Putting the image into a sketch didn't cross my mind for some reason  Think that's probably the way forward

Lewis Young
Windows 7 x64 - 32GB Ram
Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz
nVidia Quadro M2000 - 4GB
Inventor Professional 2017.3
Vault Basic 2017