Creating a baseboard and coping stone

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The sweep tool is used to create components that

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are hosted along the length of a wall.

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A profile family is used to define the two D cross section

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which is then extruded with the sweep tool.

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The sweep tool is useful for creating components such as a baseboard

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ness or coping stone

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and looking at the top of the building,

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we will create a coping around the parapet of the external walls.

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We'll use the wall sweep tool to do this.

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But first,

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we must load a profile family into the project

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to define the cross section shape of the coping.

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So from the insert ribbon tab

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on the load from library panel

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or choose load Autodesk family,

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this will open a browser for the Autodesk sample content based on the cloud.

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First, we just need to check that our

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local region is set to

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United States Imperial.

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And now we can browse to the profile group on the left hand side here

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and then we'll choose the wall subgroup.

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And then in the result shown on the right hand side here,

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we'll choose the parapet cap precast

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and then click load to load that into our project.

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So now that we have that loaded, we'll use the sweep tool.

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So from the architecture ribbon tab

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on the build panel

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from beneath the wall tool, we'll choose the wall sweep tool.

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And now looking in the type selector, we can see we have a baseboard and Coneys type.

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So we need to create the coping type.

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So to do this click, edit type

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to access the type parameters of the corners

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and then we'll click duplicate to create a copy.

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We'll assign the name parapet

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coin

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and then click OK? To save this.

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Now, looking at the type parameters,

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we have a parameter for profile.

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It's set to default. So

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we'll click this and then from the drop down list,

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we can see the parapet cap precast profile that we loaded

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and we'll choose the 20 inch wide version.

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We also need to assign a material.

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So just beneath we'll click by category next to the material parameter

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and then we'll open the material browser from the ellipsis button that appears

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use the search box at the top to search for stone materials.

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And from the list of search results, we'll click travertine

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and then click OK to assign this material onto our power

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pack coping suite.

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So now we can click OK to the type properties

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and that's how sweep type created. So

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zooming into the walls, we can see it previewed as we move our cursor around,

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we'll click the top of the wall here

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and then we'll click the side wall that joins in

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and we can see that starting to be placed.

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So now we just need to select the remainder of the walls

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and we need to make sure that we select the external face of these walls

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so that the parapet coping

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has a consistent orientation around the external walls that we're selecting.

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So once we've selected all of those walls, we'll click,

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modify to finish creating it.

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And then we can see the parapet co created

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and zooming in here, we can see a nice mighty joint at the corners.