topic Re: Collinear walls in Modeling

Collinear walls

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:38:40 GMT

Hello everybody

Suppose I have to collinear walls. One wall is made of bricks and the other one is made of concrete. In plan view I want to separate them with a line. The only way I found to do this is by inverting concrete wall’s reference line. Is there any other way without doing that? See attached jpg.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:47:41 GMT

Change the wall intersection priorities.

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:49:01 GMT

Either I'm not doing it right or It doesn’t work… I change the brick wall priority to 4, and the concrete wall priority to 12, but the small vertical line that separates the two walls does not appear… How am I supposed to do this?

Any other ideas?

Thanks again…

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:28:08 GMT

My bad. It looks like the intersection priorities just affect how the different fills intersect and not the wall outlines.

You can control the wall intersections with layer settings. The walls would need to be on different layers and the layers set to different wall intersection values. If this doesn't work for you then the offset reference lines is the way to go.

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:34:12 GMT

It's not the right way to do it, but I will leave a very small (1/16" or smaller) gap between the walls. Just enough to separate them. I can't always flip the reference line...... composites and such......

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:01:56 GMT

SteveC0013 wrote:
It's not the right way to do it, but I will leave a very small (1/16" or smaller) gap between the walls. Just enough to separate them. I can't always flip the reference line...... composites and such......

You don't have to flip the reference line, just offset it. The "Modify Wall" tools are great for this sort of stuff.

Re: Collinear walls

SeaGeoff — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:03:33 GMT

It really bugs me that you have to do any of this monkey business. There should simply be a wall tool setting that forces this end line to appear on plan. Better yet a tool or process to modify any junction in both 2D and 3D. This needs to be extended to junctions between walls, roof and slabs in section as well. Having to move the ref line or create otherwise unnecessary layers to get proper display is a bad workaround.

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:30:24 GMT

There's already a setting for wall end display, pity it doesn't do what it should.

Re: Collinear walls

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:57:08 GMT

Geoff wrote:
It really bugs me that you have to do any of this monkey business. There should simply be a wall tool setting that forces this end line to appear on plan. Better yet a tool or process to modify any junction in both 2D and 3D. This needs to be extended to junctions between walls, roof and slabs in section as well. Having to move the ref line or create otherwise unnecessary layers to get proper display is a bad workaround.

Agreed. It would also be nice to have the option to use the section outline pen or separator/fill pen as needed.

Re: Collinear walls

Petros Ioannou — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:52:43 GMT

You can put the structural concrete walls and masonry on different layers and use different intersection groups to achieve what you want.
Problem is that you will see a line between those 2 collinear walls in 3D with this layer combination.

Petros

Re: Collinear walls

Petros Ioannou — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:56:46 GMT

ooops ! just saw that this was what matthew suggested!

Anyway to add something new, you can use Composites for the masonry wall and cover the corner column with the veneer of your wall (two walls overlaping on that area .... )

Petros