topic Re: Wall Intersection Problem in Modeling

Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:19:26 GMT

Is there a way to get rid of the bug that creates this small line? And why does it appear anyway?

This is a problem I've had for ages...

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:23:28 GMT

kliment.
What is your problem exactly?

Ben

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:42:24 GMT

Sorry, guys!
I had some problesm with my Internet connection and forgot to attach the picture.

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

MarinRacic — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:46:23 GMT

You need to play around with walls' reference lines - try to change one of two and move the walls around until you get a clean joint. Check the attached screenshot for details...

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

__archiben — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:47:07 GMT

it's to do with the various thicknesses of walls you have intersecting in one place. something that GS really needs to improve on.

try flipping the reference line of the vertical wall (in your screenshot) from the left-hand side to the right?

(use Edit>Modify Wall>Reference Line... to switch the ref line without moving the position of the wall . . .)

does that help?

~/archiben

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:10:43 GMT

Thanks for the advice, guys!

I know how to trick AC with reference lines - I was just hoping for a patch or something!

It's a silly bug - it wouldn't be difficult to correct it I suppose! Not to mention that we have it since v. 4.5!

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:35:36 GMT

Anybody who works with ArchiCAD for a while has to become an expert wall twiddler. I have managed to figure out ways to get proper cleanup in plan for nearly every crazy condition I've run into. Full clean up in 3D is trickier. It is a big pain though. We could all sure save a lot of time...

Hopefully this will continue to improve in future releases.

Yes, I said continue, the clean up in both 2D and 3D has gotten significantly (dramatically) better since I started using the program in 1989 (or was it '88?).

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:44:46 GMT

for others looking for the Swap Ref. Line "Trick" (probably in the manual), with a Windows based system it is under Tools>Modify Wall>Reference Line... to switch the ref line without moving the position of the wall.

Probably just a typo ben...

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Aussie John — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:05:36 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Full clean up in 3D is trickier. It is a big pain though. We could all sure save a lot of time...

Now thats a feature Id like to see in version9 (or above)

Intersecting two walls of different heights is really annoying. ( they mitre full height not just the joining surfaces). You end up having to have walls on walls and then at the other end of the wall it can fall apart again.

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

__archiben — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 04:07:40 GMT

Jay wrote:
Probably just a typo ben...

definitely 'Edit' here! they may have swapped it to where it belongs for AC9 . . . or maybe i put it there in my work environment profile - can't remember!

~/archiben

Re: Wall Intersection Problem

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:11:46 GMT

kliment wrote:
Is there a way to get rid of the bug that creates this small line? And why does it appear anyway?

As Ben mentioned, it is to do with the way AC processes wall cleanup. Based (amongst other things?) on the relative thickness of the walls.

We have found that 'cycling through' pairs of intersecting walls normally (on the second or third 'intersect') gets them to clean up ok.

It might be useful to assign 'intersect' to ctrl-Q or somesuch to make it easier to use...

HTH - Stuart