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  1. Wall styles should be able to have different components (brick, CMU, concrete, wood framing, etc) stacked vertically atop one another. For example, an 8' high cast-in-place concrete wall supporting a 6' tall CMU wall directly above with a ribbon strip window above that should be able to be a single wall style that cleans up to other walls and has all of the behavior of a regular wall. After much experimentation and a posting to the forum, it seems like the only option to a single style is to manually stack completely separate walls with individual "styles" atop one another and manage all of the alignment and other mechanical issues by hand. Walls with different components stacked atop one another is a common detail and VW ought to either be able to handle them as a single style (preferred) or VW ought to prominently publish the work-around and include it in your various VW University articles and PDF training manuals. The ability to handle "stacked" components smoothly and fluently style is really a necessity of a modern CAD/design software.
  2. Three Items: 1) We would benefit from better technical resources to explain the best way to construct multi-component walls. This would include more clarity about how the choice of components influences how wall intersections clean up. For example, the concept of the "core" of the wall being an important component for wall joins is hinted at but I've struggled to find out how to define the "core" - it's not a characteristic that's mentioned in words in VW materials but not illustrated graphically nor apparent in the wall style dialog (I'm still looking). 2) I would appreciate better technical resources explaining how to join more complicated multi-component walls. Currently, the VW examples and tutorials deal with fairly elementary walls and wall intersection conditions. In reality, buildings are far more complicated. Current VW technical support lacks a set of recognized, reasonably fool-proof protocols/procedures for joining these walls in ways to reflect the manner in which the walls will be built. Users are left to a trial and error process of finding wall joins that reflect reality .... and then sometimes those solutions seem to be unstable and disappear when the file is re-opened. The recent/ongoing discussion on the Service Select Forum illustrates this problem. 3) In a related topic, there are currently "L"-join and "T"-join tools for wall intersections ,,,, but there's no tool for joining two walls that align with each other. This is not that big a a problem when using "unstyled" walls that are the same thickness and are only single-component walls (In this case you generally don't need to use two separate walls anyway). However, when the two walls are not the same thickness and/or don't use the same components, "joining" them so that they "look" correct on the printed sheet is tough/impossible. This gets even more complicated with working with a "T" configuration and each leg of the "T" is composed of a different wall style utilizing different components/thickness/finishes.
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