Help With Adaptive Family

[Anonymous]

Hey Guyz,

I am trying to create a sweep type adaptive family with a profile and path with are both arcs with 3 points each( see attachment) but for some reason it wont create a solid from for this configuration I am new to adaptive families so I am not sure what error I am making.

My end goal is to make a adaptive curtain panel family to match the shape in the attachment which I created using sweep but the I want the family to be adaptive so I can use the same family for various curved radii and sizes.

Your help and guidance is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

[barthbradley]

I'm not totally following. 

Sounds like 3-4-5 are the Adaptive Points connected together via a Spine line, and 1-2-3 is the shape that sweeps along the Spline line to create the form.  In that case, the form would be a planar surface. However, if your shape is 1-2-3-1 (e.g. closed loop), then the form would be three-dimensional.  Sounds like that is what you are after.  No? Then you're going to divide the surface and host your Pattern-Based family to it.  Right? 

[Anonymous]

actually I am imagining the form to be profile with a 3 point adaptive spline which then sweeps over a 3 point adaptive spline path I tried this but keep giving an error unable to create form element: self intersecting or singular geometry would result.

I don't know how to approach this maybe a different technique ?

[ToanDN]

See screencast.   However, the adaptive points of the path can work in the project environment but the adaptive points of the profile only work in the family environment.  To make the profile flexible in the project, you are better off with using parameter to control the dimensions of the profile.

[barthbradley]

Wouldn't the profile be better as one point and parameterized, instead of 3-point random? Seems to me, from the OPs picture, that the form will be exactly a quarter radius.  Only question is: what is that Radius going to be?  

[ToanDN]

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@barthbradley wrote:

Wouldn't the profile be better as one point and parameterized, instead of 3-point random? Seems to me, from the OPs picture, that the form will be exactly a quarter radius.  Only question is: what is that Radius going to be?  

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True.  If the profile is supposed to be an arc then a one-point adaptive family with a radi/arc length/arc angle parameters should suffice.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much for you suggestions I agree with you both, I will tryout the 1 point parametric arc and for the radius and update you guys.