J Lucas Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 How do you draw battered or sloped walls in Vectorworks Architect 12.5? 2008? Is it possible to draw battered or sloped walls with the wall tool and insert hybrid windows and doors in 12.5? 2008? Quote Link to comment
quigley Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 No. A sloped wall (by which I assume you mean tapering in thickness as it rises as opposed to one end being taller than the other - which is easy to do) would need to be modelled using the solid modelling tools - multiple extrude or sweep would be good options. Quote Link to comment
Travis Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 (edited) JL, The short answer is yes (by using extrudes) and no (there's no parametric object that will create battered walls). This has been discussed from time to time and the consensus work around seems to be: 1) Layout out your walls using the Wall tool; insert doors & windows. 2) Draw a 2D "section" of the battered wall; extrude this along a line drawn at the appropriate centerline (in plan view). 3) Go along and subtract solid "blocks" from the extruded wall wherever doors and windows occur. 4) Turn off the walls' class (but not the doors & windows) for C/Ds This won't give you trim (casing, sills, thresholds, etc.) nor will it be very easy to modify opening locations or sizes. . .tho not terribly difficult. Good luck, Edited September 15, 2007 by Travis Quote Link to comment
J Lucas Posted September 15, 2007 Author Share Posted September 15, 2007 Thanks Quigley and Travis, I will try your suggestions. I had not thought of extruding the wall horizontally. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Doing historical renovations requires using numerous tricks to model the different wall conditions. Inserting a door into a curved &sloped wall is easily handled by first modeling the wall per Travis instructions , then use the Wall PIO with Door Symbol inserted into a Wall which is only the LWH of the Door Jambs. Finally, set that Wall&Door Symbol into the curved&sloped wall at the openings described in item#3. Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 (edited) Additionally, for simple battered walls without inserted symbols you can use the Pillar. It has the advantage that you can join walls to it. It is an hybrid object. Are there applications capable of drawing tapered walls? Just curious. Edited September 17, 2007 by _c_ Quote Link to comment
Archeus Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 ArchiCAD can do this... Quote Link to comment
quigley Posted September 18, 2007 Share Posted September 18, 2007 This is a feature I'd like to see incorporated into the wall tool or made as a new tool - ideal for renovation work. The plan would need to beome "horizontal section" though... Quote Link to comment
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