topic Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right in Modeling

Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:03:08 GMT

I'm getting this behavior and I can't figure out how to stop it. It's the same wall but it won't cut the skin and form a 3 or 4-way intersection. Any help would be really appreciated.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Barry Kelly — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:45:23 GMT

Is the priority number for the layer that the walls are in set to zero (0) by any chance?
If set to zero then the walls will not trim.

Otherwise can you turn you wall reference lines on and show another screen shot.

Barry.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:14:20 GMT

Here's the reference lines. There is also a set a walls intersecting and you can see it should cut and heal 4-way.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:20:04 GMT

And my intersect groups are set to 1. These are my interior wall layers with the layer this wall is sitting on. You can see the grouping #'s in the pic.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:22:58 GMT

And the wall priority is set to 8.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

James B — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:33:23 GMT

zeropointreference wrote:
And the wall priority is set to 8.

In the Wall settings you need to check "Enable Skin Priority".

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:26:10 GMT

No, it couldn't be the obvious check box underneath, now could it? Thanks, sometimes my eyes are the best at hiding the obvious for me.

And for posterity sake for anyone who is searching for this solution one thing I should add is the skin priority number for the outer sheathing in the composites settings needs to be a lower number than the core material so the core material can cut through the sheathing. I just ran into this as I was going though my composites (this was an old job and had long fixed all of this in my templates).

Thanks again.

Re: Wall Skins not Cutting Right

James B — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:51:22 GMT

zeropointreference wrote:
...Thanks again.

You're welcome and when you move to AC17, then this priority number resides in the new Building Material - and not in the Composites/Profiles and there is no sneaky checkbox in the tool settings.