Jonathan P Posted October 17, 2022 Share Posted October 17, 2022 i have walls in 1st floor layer that i want to extend to use all the way to a 2nd floor then connected to roof, when i set up the 2nd floorplan, i cant see my walls. how can i fix this? Quote Link to comment
Frank_IT Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Hello Jonathan. If you want to control walls eight through design layers in VW, you can't really do that by constraining it to a level. Each design layer controls it's own walls, that must be separate objects from the ones above and below. It is technically possibile to have design layers that rise all the way to the top of the building but the software isn't intended to work like that. So I.E.: - you set your first floor walls with an altitude of 0 mm, wall height of 2700 mm, draw your walls; - given a slab thickness of 300 mm, you then set your second floor eight at (2700+300 mm); you could set the slab altitude to 2700 and reference the slab by the bottom of it instead of the top, to me it just seems less intuitive; wall eight is not important if you plan on modeling none of them on this layer, draw your horizontal element; - you set your second floor walls at an altitude of (2700+300) mm, now your second floor walls are starting from the top of the slab, and a wall eight of 2700 mm again; at this point, you either draw new walls or you can copy and paste the 1st floor ones where they match; - you set your roof level at (2700+300+2700+300) mm - we think about a flat roof here - and draw your roof anyway you want; - you now extend the the 2nd floor walls to the roof level by selecting them, going to the architectural menu and chosing "change wall eight"; this modfication isn't parametric and it won't follow the roof level if you canghe it, you'll have to repeat the process. This is the recommended way of doing things, you'll be much better prepared when organizing sheet layers, isnerting smart objects in walls, ecc. It is technically possibile to use the "CWH" command to lock walls from the bottom to the top of the structure but again, it's not how VW operates at his best (this solution does have its place though when you need walls that extend through multiple floors and you need them to be modify them accordingly). I hope this helps. Francesco Quote Link to comment
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