Jay wrote:
We have a complex wall profile that has a 4' wainscot and a ledge. When we place a door in the wall, it displays incorrectly in both the plan and 3D. In the plan view, the door frame is correct, but it doesn't cut the ledge. In 3D the door frame extends all the way to the end of the ledge. Any ideas?
Jay:
This is a similar problem that I reported during beta testing. Here follows a summary of my analysis:
The Problem:
I have been looking at using the Profile Manager with Walls to automatically add standard trim pieces to walls (base trim, crown moulding, chair rail), instead of the old method of placing objects next to the walls. When I saw the information about the Profile Manager, this was the first use of this new tool that occurred to me, but I have run into a few problems that prevent the use of this tool for this common residential condition.
I created a new profile (4 1/2” thick wall with 3/4” thick x 4” high base trim) by drawing a rectangular fill 4 1/2” wide x 8’-0” high, which is the wall itself, the Horizontal Stretch lines are set to each side of this fill. I then added fills 3/4” wide x 4” high with a profile similar to a standard base trim. The Vertical Stretch lines are set at the top of this trim and the top of the wall.
The first problem is that the wall tool takes the total width of this profile (6”) as the wall thickness, which is not correct in this common occurrence. (For those of you familiar with GDL, the C_ or WALL_THICKNESS Global Variable is being reported as 6”.) We need the option to designate the wall thickness. A start would be to be able to set for each profile, either in the Profile Manager or in the Wall Tool dialog box, whether the wall thickness is the total profile width or the width between the Horizontal Stretch lines. This would solve the specific problem described, as well as allow one profile to be used for a variety of wall thicknesses, which would allow the wall itself to expand or contract, but keep the trim profiles constant.
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