topic Re: Wall cropped top and bottom in Modeling

Wall cropped top and bottom

pcrossington — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:50:27 GMT

I am trying to crop both the top of a wall and the bottom of the same wall, to two different roof planes. I can do either operation separately with no problem, but when I try to do both, the entire wall disappears.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Phil

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon tahoe 26.5.2

Re: Wall cropped top and bottom

pbg — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:39:41 GMT

Are you trying to do this with one command, or two separate commands (one 'trim to top', one 'trim to bottom')?

Do you get the same result with an SEO?

Hope that helps!

Re: Wall cropped top and bottom

pcrossington — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:27:39 GMT

I've only tried trimming to roof, with two separate commends - "trim to top" and then "trim to bottom" (or vice-versa)

Re: Wall cropped top and bottom

runxel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:06:04 GMT

Doing it one after another should work:

Re: Wall cropped top and bottom

Barry Kelly — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:39:58 GMT

There are at least 3 ways to trim a wall.

Connect > Trim to roof

Solid Element Operation

Crop to roof.

They should all work if done separately for each roof.

However the Connect > Trim to Roof will only work if the roof planes completely overlap the wall in plan.

That is because this method uses the roof cutting body, and any wall outside of that trimming body will be discarded.

Barry.

Re: Wall cropped top and bottom

Barry Kelly — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:42:45 GMT

And a fourth method is to add an opening to the wall.

These can be any shape, not just a flat cut like a roof.

Barry.