Walls and Skirting not connecting right

[Anonymous]

hi All,

i have another problem...

i have used the 'wall' tool to create a simple skirting board. however, when i follow the line of the actual house walls with the 'skirting walls', they sometimes 'connect' (i.e. the skirting merges with the house walls) and things start to look messy.

is there a way to tell walls which other walls they can and cannot connect to?

also, if i draw a series of connecting walls, everyhting connects fine when at right angles, BUT if i require an angled connection (say 45 degrees) i sometimes have to manually fiddle with the walls until they connect properly - shouldn't this work fine every time? and is there something that i may be doing wrong? i normally use the 'continuous wall' (i.e. similar to a polyline). this problem is much worse when i try to add a skirting board as described above

thanks in advance for any tips...

[Karl Ottenstein]

That's what layer intersection priorities are all about. Check out the help menu.

Place your skirting in a layer with a different priority than the one used for your wall layer. High/low doesn't matter ... just not equal. (The word 'priority' is a bit of a misnomer.)

Karl

[Anonymous]

thanks Karl, it's so simple now...

[Anonymous]

If the elements are on a different layers, than Karl's suggestion is the method of choice. Reference line location is the another thing you can play with. In general if you keep the reference lines of the two different types of elements separated from each other it will help in these situations.