corner cleanup.

[Anonymous]

Hello all, I don't know if this is possible, I certainly can't get it to work, but it's worth a shot; I have three walls coming together as shown in the top picture, but would like them to clean up like the bottom picture (I achieved this using a patch, but obviously I'd rather have it work the way it's supposed to, instead me having to work-around). Is there any way of doing this?

cheers,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

If the concrete is specified as core and the brick is not (in the composite) then the concrete cores should clean up to each other. This might also depend on how the reference lines are intersecting, but from the looks of it you should be good on that score. It looks like you should be able to get it to work, though wall intersections can be pretty tricky.

[Anonymous]

Matthew, thanks for the quick reply, but now I have to ask an incredibly daft question; how do you assign concrete to be the "core" ?

cheers,
daniel

[Anonymous]

maybe checking the little box that says CORE. I am a moron, I've never noticed that before (the box, not the fact that I'm a moron)

[TomWaltz]

Matthew slipped the box in last night when you were out of the office. He does that to me all the time.

[Anonymous]

I knew it! I bet he's the one that keeps stealing the cookies from my desk too! *shakes fist*

[Anonymous]

while we're on the topic of cleaning up corners, here's one that even with my new found love of the core setting, I cannot solve.. the top is what I want, bottom is what I get. any ideas?

cheers,
Daniel

[Anonymous]

Daniel wrote:
I knew it! I bet he's the one that keeps stealing the cookies from my desk too! *shakes fist*

Yummmmm...

But could you get oatmeal and raisin next time? The nice chewy kind.

[Anonymous]

Daniel wrote:
while we're on the topic of cleaning up corners, here's one that even with my new found love of the core setting, I cannot solve.. the top is what I want, bottom is what I get. any ideas?

cheers,
Daniel

This one's a bit trickier and can't really be done to perfection (AFAIK).

You can get the interior wall to clean up by putting the reference line for the exterior walls on their inside face. This very situation is one of the main reasons that I recommend this as a standard practice. Of course in this particular case it looks like you could fix the interior clean up just by switching the reference line of the interior wall. But this would not work if the wall were flush to the corner - a common condition.

For the bad miter of the exterior walls the only reasonably clean fix (not involving patches) is to make the brick veneer a separate wall (this is another reason for putting the reference lines to the interior face of exterior walls). The tricky bit is to overlap it to cover up to thinner exterior finish and bring it forward in the display order. This takes care of the plan display. Then subtract it (SEO) from the other wall to get a clean 3D. You will need to use the adjust command to get the walls to overlap since they automatically snap to the reference line otherwise.

Finally you will need to fiddle with the composites so the joining faces of the framed furring wall and the brick veneer wall do not have heavy outlines.

I hope this makes sense, or at least makes an interesting puzzle