topic Re: Wall subdivide in Libraries & objects

Wall subdivide

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:25:14 GMT

Is there a way to subdivide (split) a wall (with a window or a door) in an horizontal axis in order to simulate 2 construction phases.

Thank you

Re: Wall subdivide

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:23:56 GMT

can you not just use 2 walls?

one on top of the other.

Re: Wall subdivide

Rod Jurich — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:24:27 GMT

Retdefender wrote:
Is there a way to subdivide (split) a wall (with a window or a door)
in an horizontal axis in order to simulate 2 construction phases.

No. And if you use 2 walls as suggested with your door/window overlapping
one wall you will need to place an appropriately sized Empty Opening to show
your wall and door/window correctly in elevation/3D.

Can you say why you want to "split" your wall horizontally?

Re: Wall subdivide

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:35:13 GMT

in order to model a wall with two (or more) horizontal sections/materials and have doors and windows work as normal, i would probably use a complex profile with the different fills set to different materials (see attached, left). you can even use one fill in the complex profile window and add nodes to have different materials (see attached, right).

from your reference to construction phases, i'm thinking you're looking at the construction simulation function. if that's the case, and you want the different levels of wall to appear seperately than i think rod's suggestion of seperate walls with empty openings at door window locations is probably the way to go; i think you may also want to have separate layers (with different priority settings) for each level.

Re: Wall subdivide

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:18:26 GMT

thank you all for your answers. I really appreciate it.

I am trying to simulate in Navisworks the construction of brick walls. There are two construction phaces for each wall. In Naviswork there is no way to edit objects so the brick walls must be already separeted in two parts inside Archicad.