How to get correct connections with tilted walls?

[Anonymous]

Hi!
I'm having problems with getting correct connections when using tilted walls. I have tried using tilted composite wall and I have tried using complex profiles to make the tilt, but the connections will not work properly. The walls are tilted 87, 90, 92, 95 and 96 degrees.

How can this be solved? - or can it?

Thanx!

[Barry Kelly]

Your image links are not working.
Barry.

[Anonymous]

Does this link work?




And I am using AC17 build 5019 NOR FULL.
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Tj

[Barry Kelly]

Yes it did.
I don't seem to be having any problems - same build.

Do all of your wall reference lines connect at the ends in plan?

Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Not sure what the shape of your walls are but five walls all different slopes connect so long as the reference line ends touch.
Barry.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your quick response.

The reference lines are connected in the plan. My feeling is that the problem has to do with the small angle between the walls in plan.

I have a pln file with just the five walls. Would you be interested in taking a look at it? It's 4,3 MB when zipped, so I guess it's to big to attach here. What's the best way to share?
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Tj

[Anonymous]

One wall is tilted 96 degrees and is drawn along the y-axis (90 degrees), the other one is tilted 92 degrees and is drawn at 92,8253 degrees in plan.
As you see from the screen dump the reference lines are connected but the connection is not as it should be...

Is there some mathematical magic going on here?



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Tj

[Barry Kelly]

It seems that the very slight angle in plan between the wall is having an effect (90 - 92.8253).
Increasing the angle of difference between them seems to help but this is probably not what you want to do.

Can you save your file to Dropbox or some similar file sharing site?

Barry.

[Anonymous]

I think you are right about the angle. There is another issue as well - when the wall intersects with two walls the intersections causes trouble for each other...

In the file I first modeled the walls as single walls over several stories - that didn't go well... Then I modeled the walls on each story - that was more successful... until the third story when the intersections start to interfere with each other...

Here is a link to the file, hope this dropbox thing works - I'm not that familiar with it...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q70sm8id0aoh0mc/Tilted.pln
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Tj

[Barry Kelly]

It seems to be a combination of the tilt, the angle of difference in plan and the height of the walls.

If I take the two left side walls on the top storey that are not trimming and reduce their height then they will trim correctly.

It seems you have discovered this when you had multi-storey walls with the problem.
Cutting them down in height to show on each floor solved the problems.
On all but the top storey,
There they just don't ant to trim unless you break down their height further.

Barry.