topic Re: Composite walls intersections and ends in Modeling

Composite walls intersections and ends

jamespage11 — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:11:29 GMT

Hi

I'm trying to draw a number of walls with a continuous cavity throughout. I set up a composite with two skins of brickwork and a 50mm cavity, but I can't seem to (1) get the walls to intersect properly, so that the brickwork joins up or (2) end the wall properly, with a skin of brickwork at the edge. In the picture attached, all the walls are standard 230mm cavity walls drawn with the same composite structure. Surely there's a way to get the composite fills to behave like standard construction?

Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix these two problems?

Re: Composite walls intersections and ends

NCornia — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:37:49 GMT

1) Did you setup the skin priorities in your composite? You shoud make it similar to the picture below where your inner and outer skins have the same number and your air space is higher.

2) I believe the best solution right now is the wall end tool. In Toolbox under the "More" heading. You can use the "Wrapped End Tool" and match the properties to the inside/outside skins of the wall.

HTH

Re: Composite walls intersections and ends

jamespage11 — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:23:56 GMT

Thanks for your help! I never quite understood those priority settings before, but now I get it! Same thing will work if there's plaster or insulation, etc. Highest priority overrides lower ones. Thanks.

As for the wall end tool, that helps, but doesn't work around openings.. I managed to solve the problem though by doing a little more fiddling and searching and there's actually a setting in the door or window itself not the wall which fixes it.

Image attached for future reference.

Re: Composite walls intersections and ends

NCornia — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:02:53 GMT

jamespage11,

Excellent. Good stuff!