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3 Unique Wall Intersection

Anonymous
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I have an intersection of 3 walls and at point 4, I really want the purple to connect. It has higher priority, but it still won't work. Any pointers what I can read up on to tackle such a wall. I have quite a few such walls.
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Anonymous
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I also want the green to connect.
insideru
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You just need to play with both priorities and wall reference lines. Here it is in action (the dashed lines are the wall reference lines):
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Anonymous
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Can you also do it like this?

I don't want to have 2 walls next to each other (parallel) , if it's really supposed to be 1 wall
Lingwisyer
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Where are your reference lines?

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Anonymous
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Here are the reference lines
Lingwisyer
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So the reference line of wall 3 does not intersect with the reference lines of either of the other walls?

Auto-intersections will not occur unless the reference lines intersect, so you will have to change your reference lines to a option that allows for this. Once this is achieved, the skins of your wall should connect/clip each other based on their building material priority. The easiest way would be to change the reference line for wall 1 and wall 3 to the top surface. Depending on your composites, you could also reference to one of the bottom reference lines of wall 3 and one the of the top reference lines of wall 1.


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Anonymous
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Lingwisyer wrote:
So the reference line of wall 3 does not intersect with the reference lines of either of the other walls?

Auto-intersections will not occur unless the reference lines intersect, so you will have to change your reference lines to a option that allows for this. Once this is achieved, the skins of your wall should connect/clip each other based on their building material priority. The easiest way would be to change the reference line for wall 1 and wall 3 to the top surface. Depending on your composites, you could also reference to one of the bottom reference lines of wall 3 and one the of the top reference lines of wall 1.


Ling.
You said: "The easiest way would be to change the reference line for wall 1 and wall 3 to the top surface". I did that to wall 1 and 3 and this happened.
Anonymous
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Or this, which has identical outer layer
Lingwisyer
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I do not get why your internal materials are not joining up now unless you inadvertently inversed the Intersection Priorities...
Material 6 has a lower IS then Material 5. You can just duplicate the material and adjust the new material to have an IS that is just lower than that of the original. Material 3 also needs to have a higher IS than Material 6 otherwise you will get a wedge from Wall 3 protruding into the wall intersection.

If Material 5 and Material 6 on the top edge of the wall are different materials, I'm not sure how you would join them without getting a chamfered corner from Wall 3...

So the BMs would be:
5 > 3 > 6


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