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Beams with different width connection issue

fycsur
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When i'm trying to intersect two beams of different width, their intersection line is not 45 degree, and thus the same parts dont intersect properly.

I have two beams, with the same profile in relation to the reference line, (high, tall part) but different widht otherwise. When i connect them, the connection line is drawn with a line connection the two corners of the beams, and so it creates an off angle line messing up the connection of the same elements.

 

Is there a way to change this connection line to 45 degrees? Or make it somehow building material strength related so its not deformed?

 

Operating system used: Windows


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rakurs
Advocate

Not really much you can do there. 😞

 

My workflow is to create the construction beams with only concrete and they connect as they should, even when they have different widths. And if they don't and it's a 90 degree angle of connection, you can always end one short and not "connect" them at all but have them visually correct. And then, create a complex profile (or two different complex profiles) for the insulation, cladding and details, which will connect in an improper way, but have the construction beams SEO substract them. The most important part is that the construction and the cladding have to be on different layers with different numbers so that they don't interact. "Beam - construction" with number 1, so it interacts with most other structures,) and "Beam - cladding" with number 2 or whatever, so it doesn't interact with other structures. I would avoid using zero because the beams won't interact with other beams on the same layer, and that won't produce proper corners.

 

On this last picture, you have a triangle that just won't go away. Well, I have no other words than "sorry about that." It just needs to have yet another (flat) element which will SEO with it to fill the gap.

 

I truly hope that I'm wrong and there's an easier solution.


ArchiCAD 28 | INT - Cro | Forward | WIN 10 / 11

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ArchiCAD 28 | INT - Cro | Forward | WIN 10 / 11
Lingwisyer
Guru

Is that a single CP with stretch modifiers? Normal CPs will join at the correct angle.

 

Oh, reading your post again after seeing your link, the issue is that your CP has multiple, non-symetrical, widths along it's height... Other than splitting up these parts into seperate intersection pairs there is not really anything you can do...

 

Have you tried using a CP wall instead? It should intersect by BM then instead of just taking the bisector.

 

Ling.

 

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