topic Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray in Project data & BIM

Need some "Line be gone" spray

Stress Co_ — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:03:41 GMT

How can I clean up my floor plan and rid my elevations of unwanted intersection lines?

I have 3 walls intersecting. Two are perpendicular & are the same height, composite, wall priority, etc. The third wall is a different height and layer. I can get it to clean up in plan, but not elevation... and visa versa.

Anyone know how I can have my cake ...and eat it too?

Marc

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Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Stress Co_ — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:04:31 GMT

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Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 22:03:18 GMT

Marc,
I think what you are seeing is the miter at the corner of the two high
exterior walls. The only way I know of to fix this is to make
your high exterior walls into two walls stacked on top of each other.
Make the lower one the height of your low wall then make the
other lower exterior wall that meets the front wall a 1/64"
less than the thickness of the front wall so it does not clean up.
Send this wall to back so that you don' see the the non-cleaned up joint
because it is hidden by the fill of the mitered upper walls that do clean up.

I know this is tedious but, short of unlinking your elevation and deleting
the line that is the outside corner of the mitered walls or making an object
that makes a plane that masks the joint in 3D, I know of no other way.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Gerald Hoffman — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:02:32 GMT

Marc,

You might try not putting in the short walls but cutting down the regular walls with solid modeling operation. Subtract with upwards extrusion whatever you don't want off the top. If you want the short wall to have a different texture in plan you could just use a cover fill.

I haven't tried it yet but it should work.

Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Stress Co_ — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:09:12 GMT

I don't know Peter.....

It gets confusing when you have a window half in the upper wall and half in the lower. ......maybe I should just use a patch on the elevations and call it good? Although, I always have a heck of a time aligning the fill pattern of the patch, to the fill pattern of the wall (6" Horiz. siding for example). I've done it this way before.

Thank you
Marc

Postscript.....

I just read Gerald's suggestion.... gonna give it a try.

Thanks

Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Stress Co_ — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:23:31 GMT

Ok:

Tried Gerald's idea... and it works, .....But I still have to clean up the plan with a patch...... it gave me the idea to use an empty opening window instead.

I think that works best as I can show my wood grain wall cap by adjusting the "windows" wallhole fill pattern.

Thanks guys.

Marc

Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:24:18 GMT

Marc,
You don't have to replace the whole length of the wall with two walls
only the last foot or less at the corner so you won't have to deal
with the window.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Re: Need some "Line be gone" spray

Stress Co_ — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:28:53 GMT

Peter wrote:
Marc,
You don't have to replace the whole length of the wall with two walls
only the last foot or less at the corner so you won't have to deal
with the window.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Peter:

I'll keep that in mind. I've come across this problem in my models before and the fix that worked today... wouldn't work for every case.
Thanks
Marc