Solid Element Operations problems!

[toofuerte]

I have been editing a roof, and I have the walls SOE'ed. After changing the pitches and realigning the edges, the walls are no longer cut. I re-cut them and they stay uncut. I have copied and replaced the roof and it still has the same problem. is there some kind of bug or something? if anyone can help that would be great.

I have had the problem before with meshes, and I copied the mesh and replaced the old one and then it worked, takes a few times of copying and pasting.

[Anonymous]

G'day.

by SOE'ed, i think you mean "trim to roof"? and then after you've moved the roof around, up or down, the wall stays trim to how/where the roof was.

if that's the case, then to reset the wallto its original state so that you can re-trim. pick the wall, go to its 'wall selection settings' dialogue box. there's an option in the 'model' section of the settings called "undo roof trim". that should reset the wall.

Minh.

[Anonymous]

Minh

SEO is used as an alternative to "trim to roof" and stays linked, i.e. if you alter the roof the wall "cut" moves to suit. Both methods have their merits and drawbacks. Gerald "Toofuerte's" problem is that these changes are not being updated as they should be. Of course if you delete a roof which is used as an "operator" then create another roof in its place the SEO is lost, but I don't think that is the case here.

(or are you saying Gerald has "trimmed to roof" but is describing it as SEO?)

[Stephen Dolbee]

In my experience it has always been a roof problem when SEO's no longer work. Try changing all roof edges to vertical and see if that helps. I do wish Archicad would let us know if a roof had degenerated in some way.

Steve

[toofuerte]

sounds like Steve has it right. I used to use the trim to roof, but when I change the roof pitch and height the wall is still trimmed so I have to take off roof trim and then re-trim and that gets annoying. but I have had the same problem when I just do a trim to roof. SEO is solid element operations, sorry i said SOE.

[toofuerte]

When I set all edges to vertical it all works now,

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

I have 2 copies of non-rectangular multi-sided slab. One is offset inside the other and I want a Boolean subtraction. Can't get it to work.
Can send file if anyone wants. Regards
Fred

[Aussie John]

Broker wrote:
I have 2 copies of non-rectangular multi-sided slab. One is offset inside the other and I want a Boolean subtraction. Can't get it to work.
Can send file if anyone wants. Regards
Fred

Dont forget they need to be on separate layers and then hide the cookie cutter

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply John. Already have tried that, still can't make it work. The two slabs are on different layers, they are both the same thickness and after the operation I hide the layer of the Operator. Hmm will try again. 🙂

[Anonymous]

ahhaa, now then, straight subtraction does not work but subtraction wth downwards extrusion does. Beats me but hey I can stick the hair back on...time for coffee. Thanks fir the help guys. regards Fred Wright, Architect, Bulgaria