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Battered Walls


J Lucas

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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 by Travis
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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.

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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.

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