Collinear walls

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Change the wall intersection priorities.

[Anonymous]

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…

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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......

[Anonymous]

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.

[SeaGeoff]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Petros Ioannou]

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