topic Re: missing lines in elevations in Modeling

missing lines in elevations

Tom Krowka — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:08:58 GMT

I am missing lines at certain places in elevations. The model looks good, but at some intersections, no lines appear. Is this because elements do not perfectly align? I've tried going back into the drawing and adjusting things, to no avail.

Also, I get a line in the elevations where an interior wall intersects the exterior wall. Any way to eliminate that, without changing the justification on the wall?

Re: missing lines in elevations

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:28:28 GMT

Sometimes I find this happening for the following reasons: doubling up walls unintentionally, different heights of walls at the junction (base or top), or the 3D Model setting for the wall is not set to what is required.
I hope this helps.
Regards,

Re: missing lines in elevations

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:27:41 GMT

The 3d fill lines (such as siding or brick joints) will sometimes disappear when they happen to coincide with wall or slab edges that are cleaning up to each other.

Re: missing lines in elevations

Stephen Dolbee — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:14:57 GMT

I've had this happen when columns extend into the floor above. Also, sometimes a small piece of wall (unnoticed in plan view) is the culprit.

Steve

Re: missing lines in elevations

vfrontiers — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 06:21:19 GMT

Tom wrote:
I am missing lines at certain places in elevations. The model looks good, but at some intersections, no lines appear. Is this because elements do not perfectly align? I've tried going back into the drawing and adjusting things, to no avail.

Also, I get a line in the elevations where an interior wall intersects the exterior wall. Any way to eliminate that, without changing the justification on the wall?

Try re-JOINING the wall in plan... Although I usually find that at a T intersection, the walls may have trouble remembering the joint, it usually shows up in BOTH the 3d window and the elevation. (extra lines in colinear walls).

I also get INSIDE CORNER lines disappearing if say one side has a 2' wall on top of an 8' wall and the other side has a 3' wall on top of a 7' wall (or goes the full 10' in one wall)

Re: missing lines in elevations

lapishawaii — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:20:59 GMT

Here's one method for removing miscellaneous interior wall lines from the exterior model:

Set the control line for the exterior wall to the exterior face then trim the interior walls to the interior face. Since these wall types are usually different I find having the wall just touching each other much more acceptable than the unwanted exterior elevation lines.