topic Re: undoing split walls in Modeling

undoing split walls

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:07:45 GMT

I split a single wall into 2 walls using hte split command.
This was a few days back, and today I wanted to make them into 1 wall again.
I tried the unify command and merge elements command, but didnt work...

any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: undoing split walls

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 04:31:00 GMT

I would like to know the answer to this too.

Out of curiosity is this because of windows?

Re: undoing split walls

Barry Kelly — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 05:28:39 GMT

Unfortunately there is no unify wall command.
The best you can do is stretch the end of one wall to the end of the other and delete the shorter wall.

This of course will delete any doors & windows in that wall.
The trick there is to mark the location of the windows with a hotspot.
Now drag the short wall (the one you want to delete) to the side going along the length of the wall until it is just clear of the longer wall (the one you want to keep).
Then just drag the doors & windows from the short wall back into the long wall.
So long as the reference lines are in line with each other you can drag the wall from one wall to the other.
Now delete the short wall (that has no doors or windows left).

A bit long winded but it does work.

Generally I wouldn't bother unless you had a door or window spanning the join between both walls and even then I would just stretch the ends of the walls to one side of the window.

Barry.

P.S. you can also drag copies of doors and windows and you can also do it in 3D or elevation vertically to drag or copy windows from one flor to another.
So long as the wall reference lines are in the same plane - they can even be different wall composites.

Re: undoing split walls

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:41:50 GMT

Thanks for answering. That's what I usually do. Was hoping there was a unify command or technique I didn't know about for walls.

Re: undoing split walls

James B — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:45:34 GMT

You can refer to this previous thread for some help:
Merging Split Walls

Re: undoing split walls

Barry Kelly — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:37:26 GMT

James wrote:
You can refer to this previous thread for some help:
Merging Split Walls

I had totally forgotten this method.
Now if that could be automated to merge the walls but keep one of the composites (if different) rather than creating a custom complex profile that would be just brilliant.
Barry.

Re: undoing split walls

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:40:59 GMT

Thank you very much!