topic trimming walls to stairs in Modeling

trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:47:03 GMT

i have a wall that needs to be trimmed to a set of stairs because it is pertruding through the bottom of the stairs. i also want to draw a wall along the edge of the stairs. can someone out there help me?

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:37:21 GMT

jcude wrote:
i have a wall that needs to be trimmed to a set of stairs because it is pertruding through the bottom of the stairs. i also want to draw a wall along the edge of the stairs. can someone out there help me?

Have you tried or considered using solid element operations to trim the top of the wall to the stair?

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:54:23 GMT

i'm not familiar with that. i am still in school at night while i am working so i guess i haven't learned that one yet. fill me in! what is the scoop?

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:03:08 GMT

jcude wrote:
i'm not familiar with that. i am still in school at night while i am working so i guess i haven't learned that one yet. fill me in! what is the scoop?

It pretty staright forward...go to to the edit pull down menu to solid element oprations... select your wall as the target and select the stair as operator ...choose an operation method like subtract w/ upwards extrusion and hit execute.

You get the hang of it when you try it out.

dan k

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:43:17 GMT

thanx dan. that worked great. this is much easier than architectural desktop. i switched to ac from that and it took like 10 steps to trim the wall to the stairs. it just keeps on impressing me.

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Stress Co_ — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:42:45 GMT

jcude wrote:
i'm not familiar with that. i am still in school at night while i am working so i guess i haven't learned that one yet. fill me in! what is the scoop?

Jeremy:
Try using SEO when trimming walls to roofs (subtract with upwards extrusion). If and when your raise/lower the roof.... the trimed wall will move/adjust with it (Unlike "trim to roof" in the wall settings).

Also, if you have two objects intersecting ... but a line doesn't appear at the intersection in elevation/section view..... SEO the two (subtract).

Marc

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:12:14 GMT

this process seems to be another form of trim to roof with more benefits. i'll continue to use this function. seo is great.

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:02:44 GMT

hi there. i just tried using the seo to trim walls to the underside of stairs. it gave me the message 'there are no valid target or operator elements stored". i picked the walls and then said get target elements. then selected the stairs and then get operator element. and then hit execute. what's up? what did i do wrong? thanks.

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:38:52 GMT

Marta

Sounds like you were heading in the right direction, but check that you deselect your targets before selecting your operators, otherwise they will all be in the same group.

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:15:28 GMT

aha! that worked! thanks!

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:25:49 GMT

How about the same problem in 8.1 version.
I've got circular shape stairs and i want the wall to be trimmed to its bottom surface... I've tried SEO and Trim to Roof tool .. but either I messed up with sth or its a difference between newer versions..
Pls help me... thats last thing i have to do to finish the foyer ..

Re: trimming walls to stairs

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:55:42 GMT

Stress wrote:
Try using SEO when trimming walls to roofs (subtract with upwards extrusion). If and when your raise/lower the roof.... the trimed wall will move/adjust with it (Unlike "trim to roof" in the wall settings).

I do that, too, but the only problem I've encountered with it is that the walls still show whatever the original height you built them at was in the info box, no matter what height they actually turn into.

Wendy