topic Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up in Modeling

45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:07:06 GMT

I thought that I was savy enough to figure out the combination in order to get this wall configuration to clean-up, but I have come up lacking.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

TomWaltz — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:17:27 GMT

What are the priority settings on the skins? Is the "Use skin priorities" setting turned on in those walls?

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

__archiben — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:21:23 GMT

Jay wrote:
Any help would be appreciated.

where is the reference line on the 45º wall jay? can you maybe attach a MOD file of the two walls?

~/archiben

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:35:12 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
What are the priority settings on the skins? Is the "Use skin priorities" setting turned on in those walls?

"Enable Skin Priorities" is checked if that is what you mean.

~/archiben wrote:
where is the reference line on the 45º wall jay?

The 45-degree wall offset is set to 1/2", The others are set to "0". I tried all the walls set to "0" with no success either.

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:38:25 GMT

Saw here Ben was headed with the Off-set. I set all the walls to a 1/2" off set. Closer to clean....

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

Richard Morrison — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:08:15 GMT

This is an example of why we have/need Patches. Just use one and be done with it.

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

James Murray — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:22:13 GMT

Richard is right, intersections of this type will fail often. You might wring a solution out of one, but the next one is intractable. Every project has intersections that don't clean up. We're all accustomed to this situation, but that doesn't make it right.

Composite cleanup is fundamental and it's embarrassingly poor. Use a patch, get your work done, but demand better.

Re: 45-degree Composite Wall clean-up

TomWaltz — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:55:52 GMT

Richard wrote:
This is an example of why we have/need Patches. Just use one and be done with it.

Patches work great... until you move something and have to re-create them all over again.