topic Re: Cover wall beams in Modeling

Cover wall beams

Kodi — Mon, 09 May 2022 16:23:40 GMT

I’ve been having some issues with regards to making my walls cover the beams in 3D visualization. Does anyone have a technique or method to extend the walls over beams?

Re: Cover wall beams

Ransom Ratcliff — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:29:14 GMT

In the Layer Settings, try changing the Layer Intersection Group Number for the beams layer so that it is different from the walls layer number. BTW, this setting is stored by the Layer Combination, along with Show/Hide, Lock/Unlock, Solid/Wire-frame, for each layer.

Re: Cover wall beams

Lingwisyer — Tue, 10 May 2022 01:24:19 GMT

Could you add a skin to your walls?

Re: Cover wall beams

Kodi — Tue, 10 May 2022 11:40:38 GMT

Wouldn’t that affect my wall thickness in plan?

Re: Cover wall beams

Barry Kelly — Tue, 10 May 2022 12:11:00 GMT

If the wall has building materials that are stronger than the building materials in the beam, you should find the wall cuts the beam automatically.

If it is the other way around, the beam will cut the wall, which might be what you are seeing.

The layer intersection priority number must be the same for for the automatic trimming to take effect (if the beams and walls are in different layer).

Barry.

Re: Cover wall beams

Lingwisyer — Wed, 11 May 2022 01:24:51 GMT

It would be your finish thickness, that if you wanted to, you could turn off in plan using the Partial Structure Display.

Re: Cover wall beams

Ransom Ratcliff — Wed, 11 May 2022 02:39:46 GMT

Ok, we need some more clarity on the existing conditions and the goal. I assumed the following:

If anything, the beam should cut a wall, not the other way around.
The exterior skin of the wall was in front of the beams, not coplanar.
The beams were cleaning up to the walls because their reference lines were connecting.
The intersection of the beams, which were made of materials with higher intersection priority, were cutting into the walls.
we don't want to change the building material intersection priorities.

If so, maybe adjusting the reference line location of the walls to avoid intersection, would help. (There is a button for this that avoids moving the volume of the wall.)

Failing that, I suggested changing the intersection group number of the layers so that the beam and wall elements ignore each other, which would stop the effect of the beams on the walls.

Forgive me if there is more to this problem than meets the eye.

Re: Cover wall beams

Kodi — Thu, 12 May 2022 01:14:45 GMT

Thanks a lot, I tried this and it worked. I didn’t know about partial Partial Structure Display.