creating new stone arched entryway

[mpolka]

Is there a way to rotate a primitives cylinder on its side? I have an entry way with receding arches toward the front door and I thought the best way to model it would be to place a huge primitives block and then difference out the arches with cylinders for the tops of the arches and primitive cubes or rectangles for the lower part of the arched openings. I have at least three different arched stone ceilings in the same general area outside of the front door. I did a print screen of the 3D full overview but it came out to be 15MB file size in .bmp so I could not send an image of what I'm talking about. BTW, any suggestions on how to make a smaller image of the screen capture? Of course, I am much more concerned with modeling the entry to this very large house.
I am pretty new to Chief.
Thanks.

[Curtis Johnson]

mp.....

Try tiling your plan image with your 3d image side x side (vertically) ... then select your image screen and put your cursor on one of the corners of the screen and drag it toward the center ... while doing this, watch the pixel size of the image screen in the task bar ... bottom right. I usually use a screen size of about 640 x 480 for posting on ChiefTalk. Hope this works as I am having a hard time visualizing what you are trying to accomplish.

[mpolka]

mp.....

Try tiling your plan image with your 3d image side x side (vertically) ... then select your image screen and put your cursor on one of the corners of the screen and drag it toward the center ... while doing this, watch the pixel size of the image screen in the task bar ... bottom right. I usually use a screen size of about 640 x 480 for posting on ChiefTalk. Hope this works as I am having a hard time visualizing what you are trying to accomplish.

Thank you but I don't really understand. I did a print-screen and then opened up Microsoft Picture Editor as I don't really have any other options for opening up the image except Micorsoft Word. How do you mean, "drag it toward the center?"

[ivancyr]

BTW, any suggestions on how to make a smaller image of the screen capture?

Use the windows snipping tool to take a jpg picture of your screen...you can then write on it also to point to the exact problem area to help us see the issue at hand.( I just posted a question using the tools a moment ago). Then you upload the jpg to the forum.

Very handy.

[moak]

You have this question running in two threads.
See one possible approach here.

[mpolka]

Use the windows snipping tool to take a jpg picture of your screen...you can then write on it also to point to the exact problem area to help us see the issue at hand.( I just posted a question using the tools a moment ago). Then you upload the jpg to the forum.

Very handy.

Use the what-now? Windows snipping tool? What and where is it?
Thank you.

[mpolka]

You have this question running in two threads.
See one possible approach here.

Yes, is that not allowed?

[Joe Carrick]

If you're using Win7 just type "Snipping Tool" in the Windows Search box. It should subsequently be in your "Start Menu". In Prion versions of Windows you can search for "Snippit" I believe.

[Joe Carrick]

I think you could do the arch using the following:

1. For the Arched Opening just use a Molding Profile for the "Casing" and set the Casing Material to Stone.
2. For the Extension back to the actual Door use a Ceiling Plane (arched) and set the Ceiling Material to Stone.

[Joe Carrick]

Another option would be to create 2 Primitive Solid Cylinders - one a little smaller than the other and subtract the smaller from the larger. This will result in a tube/pipe. You can then place another solid (Box) so that it bisects the Tube - Subtract the box from the Tube and you now have a "Barrel Vault" which can be used as your Archway.

I find using the Primitive Solids with the "Boolean" tools quite handy.

[moak]

Joe,
I posted a video in the other thread showing a way to do this by drawing a polyline in elevation then converting it to a psolid with the desired depth.

[Joe Carrick]

Joe,
I posted a video in the other thread showing a way to do this by drawing a polyline in elevation then converting it to a psolid with the desired depth.

More than one way to "Skin a Cat"

[mpolka]

More than one way to "Skin a Cat"

Thanks to Joe C and KM. I am in process of trying the polyliine version. My lines keep going behind the elevation. I will get back to you with the verdict.

----MJP

[Curtis Johnson]

MJP

Attached are a few images of a porch I created using walls with arched doorways with the casing suppressed. This is very easy to do. I like using polyline solids in some cases as well. For this example I also did the porch ceiling with 3 manually placed ceiling planes with the center one being a barrell vault that is about the same curvature as the main doorway arch. This is also pretty easy to do but not quite as fast as using a polyline solid.

Also attached is an image of what I was trying to suggest with my first post. Just take an image of anything in your plan; then click on Window in the top menu bar > Tile Vertically > click and drag on a corner of the image as shown and watch the size of the image (in pixels) change as you drag the mouse inward toward the center. You can post any size you want as long as it doesn't exceed ChiefTalk's maximum size restrictions (200Kb's for .jpg's). Larger images are easier for us to look at as compared to posting a very small image.

[perryh]

If you need framing with that, you can also do it with ceiling planes