Curved Walls (curved edge not showing in elevation?)

[rob2218]

I have quite a few curved walls in this model.
I've placed an "out of the box" exterior elevation and the "edge" of the curved wall is NOT showing....what gives folks?

[Barry Kelly]

It seems to happen when the edge of the window opening is placed exactly on the end of the curved wall.
Sorry I don't have a solution except to move the window slightly away from the end of the curved wall.
Oddly enough though when I move it back to the end the wall remains visible - so maybe that is the solution.
Place it, move it then move it back.

Barry.

[rob2218]

ahh geez...but I don't understand what you mean by "move the window"?
move the windows how?

[Barry Kelly]

Select the window in plan and drag it away from the end of the curved wall.
This only needs to be a small move in my experiment.
Now look at the elevation and the wall should be OK - it was for me.
Try moving the window back in plan to where it was before - my wall remained OK in elevation after I had done this.

Barry.

[Stress Co_]

I hate it when it doesn't work as expected,
but I'd draw a 2D line and move on.

[rob2218]

Arghhhh!!!!....no no no....no 2D!.....model "MUST" work!.
geez...I despise doing that. drawing 2D stuff when the model should just "WORK".....

I tried the window movement around.
didn't do if for me.
as a matter of fact, when I copy the 'curved wall over to the left 10 feet and just look at the elevation of the curved wall...same thing....it does'nt show the edge...dunno.
this blows.

Stress wrote:
I hate it when it doesn't work as expected,
but I'd draw a 2D line and move on.

[rob2218]

seriously.....I have no idea what causes this?
it has something to do with the the wall cleanups?
dunno...cause when I copy these walls over and do a "fillet with radius of 4'0") it wont show the edge, with or without windows, doors, whatevers....still blows.

[rob2218]

I mean..here's the test.
take two walls at 90 degrees from each other.
Don't make them touch just yet.
separate the walls by say....10'
so you should have an "OPEN" L-shaped diagram in plan.
then use the "chamfer" corner command and use the "radius" instead of the "chamfer" at about 5 feet.
then look at the elevation. Seems the "chamfer" and the walls do something where the "edge" becomes invisible....it's a glitch.

[Barry Kelly]

Chamfered walls work fine for me until I put a window in exactly at the end of the curved wall.

Barry.

[rob2218]

huh....well...dunno sir.
dunno if it's a composite issue, a wall issue, a real live glitch issue...just dunno.
allz I know is that it doesn't produce an "edge" line when viewing the wall in elevation.