topic Re: Wall representation problem in Modeling

Wall representation problem

Mats_Knutsson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:08:15 GMT

Good evening gurus and others,

I have a curved wall which I copy and elevate. When I change the length of one of the walls I get a connection line between the walls. See attached image. The line looks somewhat different depending on circumstances. Sometimes there are only a few dots... Why is it so? I don't want it!
Cheers,
Mats

Re: Wall representation problem

James Murray — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:31:18 GMT

This is a long-standing problem with stacked, curved walls. It is related to how the different curves are faceted. The only time I've seen them clean up is when the two walls stack perfectly in length and thickness.

Re: Wall representation problem

Thomas Holm — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:39:19 GMT

The workaround is to make the middle part one wall with double height instead of two stacked. This wasn't really possible until AC10.

Re: Wall representation problem

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:27:56 GMT

Thomas wrote:
The workaround is to make the middle part one wall with double height instead of two stacked. This wasn't really possible until AC10.

You could also make the lower wall three sections, with the middle section the same length as the upper wall, if you don't want to have double storey walls.

Re: Wall representation problem

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:36:19 GMT

This is a math problem. If you have points on your bottomwall where the topwall begin and end, then I think the math should be ok and you will get a nice wall.

Re: Wall representation problem

Mats_Knutsson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:58:58 GMT

Thanks all for your replies!
Parts of this actual project have walls that are multi-story high but then there are several situations where this method can't be used.
I'm OK with exploding the elevations as a work-around.
Cheers,
Mats

Re: Wall representation problem

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:51:54 GMT

Mats_Knutsson wrote:
Thanks all for your replies!
Parts of this actual project have walls that are multi-story high but then there are several situations where this method can't be used.
I'm OK with exploding the elevations as a work-around.
Cheers,
Mats

But that defeats the whole BIM philosophy.

Re: Wall representation problem

Mats_Knutsson — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:02:11 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
Mats_Knutsson wrote:
Thanks all for your replies!
Parts of this actual project have walls that are multi-story high but then there are several situations where this method can't be used.
I'm OK with exploding the elevations as a work-around.
Cheers,
Mats
But that defeats the whole BIM philosophy.

Yep!
We're entering infant-BIM. The only truth right now concerning BIM is not to lock yourself into applications and formats. Things will change dramatically when the foundation for BIM (3D models) are the standard way of working.