Wall Joining - Challenge

[Michael Siggers]

So

 

Attached is a file which has two corner walls on.

 

The one on the left was created with a Style that includes the External Cladding installed onto Vertical battens, and Internal Plasterboard installed onto battens to create a service void. The wall is constructed using SIPs with the internal and external finishes installed. I created a wall style that includes all the components.

 

The one on the right is how it should look. This was created using a wall style for the SIP alone, (Structural Insulated Panel), and then the External Finish and Internal finish were modelled separately. As can be appreciated, this makes it a ball ache when inserting doors and windows.

 

The $64000 question is, I bet there is no way to achieve what is shown on the right with the Wall Style on the left?

 

If this is not possible, at least I know and I can stop wasting my time trying to sort it.

 

Kind regards

 

Mike

Practice 19 - Wall Joining.vwx

[E|FA]

I often model the exterior siding separately to get the layout just right.  The trick (learned from @Jonathan Pickup) is to use the Extract Tool on the wall after you've placed your doors & windows.  This will give you a polygon with the cladding area that you can extrude & 3D model as needed.

 

Regarding your other thread regarding difficulties getting used to VW:  I don't think I could have made the transition to 3D in VW (I am a long time 2D user) as easily without @Jonathan Pickup's content.  You can find some of it on YouTube, but the paid course and membership content were invaluable.  I stopped subscribing once I felt I had the hang of it, but fully recommend it.  https://archoncad.com.  The certification courses on VW University were not available at the time, so I don't know if they'd be as useful, but they are free.

[Pat Stanford]

This is what I managed to get to by jointing the walls in Uncapped mode and then using the "Capped Join Mode" (third mode) of the Component Join Tool to join the OSB and PIR.  Some were joined to the air gaps to get what was needed.

 

[E|FA]

I hadn't looked at the attached file and assumed the discussion was about elevation drawings, not details.  @Michael Siggers, what are you trying to accomplish?  If it is to generate a large scale 2D detail by modeling in 3D, I think you're heading in the wrong direction.  I've found the 3D model can at best be used to generate underlays for large scale details, but I tend to draft the details from scratch in 2D.  The linked Youtube video is a good deep dive into detailing in VW.

 

Also, I think @Pat Stanford won the $64K bet.  I find the Component Join Tool interface really annoying, but it looks like Pat has mastered it.