Splayed window reveals on external walls - again...

LeeJaeYoung — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:33:50 GMT

I've searched and found a number of old responses to similar questions, and various suggestions have been made, with varying results - all unsatisfactory and problematic in some way or another, unless I'm missing something obvious!

What I want to achieve is thick walls with splayed reveals on the external face, but not the internal face.

A variation on something like this.

It's not that uncommon a detail, but if we can't model something easily, it compromises the architecture, which is not what BIM software is supposed to do, and certainly not Archicad.

I want the splayed reveals to have a different surface finish, whether it's a metal panel or a different brick. I want them to display in plan, section and elevation without any messing around with cover fills.

Windows typically allow custom splayed reveals, but only on the internal reveals. I can model this just fine and use slabs/beams columns to create the custom reveal materials - as long as I reverse the direction of all the walls.

Obviously this is on the 'wrong' wall face, which I'm nervous about in terms of things like composites, connections, data tags etc.

I don't really want to flip the walls so they will then all have the external walls on the internal face, and vice-versa. I can't simply flip the reveals. Flipping the window won't flip the reveals.

I can use floating SEOs in 3D, but they don't display on plan, which is a major problem.

I could convert the wall to a morph, but that's another terrible idea.

I'm playing around with massing options, which is why ideally I just want the window configuration in the wall to do it.

Are there any clever components that can do it?

What's the best/easiest way to do this without jumping through too many hoops?

Re: Splitting a wall, why can't it be connected?

SenecaDesignLLC — Sun, 15 May 2022 01:51:10 GMT

There must be something else there. I have no issues connecting walls that are all perpendicular, angles are sometimes trouble some.

Not even sure how you generated those warnings with walls.

Are you using composite walls or?

What version of AC are you using?

Re: Splitting a wall, why can't it be connected?

LeeJaeYoung — Sun, 15 May 2022 04:04:03 GMT

Thank you for your interest.

A day has passed and now it is connected even if I change it again ^^

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