topic Re: Battered Wall Construction in Modeling

Battered Wall Construction

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:24:14 GMT

How do you eliminate the door and window in a battered wall object? Also, how do you make it of semi-infinite length? I want to use the object for a battered footing that follows the perimeter of the house.

Regards

Re: Battered Wall Construction

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:58:13 GMT

Hi David,

David wrote:
How do you eliminate the door and window in a battered wall object? Also, how do you make it of semi-infinite length? I want to use the object for a battered footing that follows the perimeter of the house.

Regards

I think you can get your battered footing by adding 2 regular walls on top of each other with the 1st's end point to be the 2nd's starting point.
This way your able to select the lower wall and add the battered command to only that one, if I understand your question correctly.

Re: Battered Wall Construction

Dwight — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:00:12 GMT

The battered wall is an accessory that automatically uses wall opening data to establish its own openings. You select walls, then apply the accessory routine found in the Extras menu.

You are having a problem because you are trying to employ the default as an object, not an integrated routine.You've looked at the opbject default view with a door and window opening and aren't aware that this is a dynamic, self-defining element.

The tone of your question is that you'd like a stretchy object, but the accessory will produce a battered wall against any selected wall element once the accessory is invoked - semi-infinite, if you like. You can also define it to go beneath openings and therefore be unaffected by them.

Practice on a square room to see what I mean.

1: make walls.
2: select walls.
3: Extras>Accessories>Wall Accessories...
4: Tell it what shape to be.
5: Confirm, and Viola.

Alternatively, Cigraph makes a fine tool called [no surprise] ArchiWall where the accessory follows curves to define itself against a selected wall.
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