topic Re: Override Surfaces in Modeling

Override Surfaces

Steve Jepson — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:46:03 GMT

I would be nice to have one more override for surfaces since almost all building components have 4 sides, not 3.

You may want the fills to show in floor plan per the materials you made, but because of the way the walls don't clean up the ends properly, you can not get the wall to look right on the outside corners unless you use the override that changes both the top and the ends at the same time.

This is especially a problem when you are working with composites that have many different outside surfaces.

Perhaps there is some way to configure the walls better ?

Re: Override Surfaces

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:33:44 GMT

It seems like it should be easy to accommodate, and why not all six sides? Extra options such as these come in very handy when one is trying to find a workaround for one inherent limitation or another.

Of course, I have heard the "too many options makes it unwieldy" argument. So make these features an option available to those who wish to enable them, leaving them hidden by default?

Why don't you submit this as a wish?

Re: Override Surfaces

Steve Jepson — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:15:50 GMT

I don't have much faith in wish lists because there are so many higher priorities they cannot keep up with as it is.