Tobias Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I have a situation where I have doors that extend below the "bottom plate" of the wall, into the foundation (garage doors). I have notched the foundation walls around the door bottoms, and that works fine. The problem comes from the ground floor walls. They leave a line across the doors at the bottom plate. I've attached a somewhat rude pdf of the problem. Line is there in wireframe (although hard to see) and in open GL and Final Render, but does not show up in Hidden Line. Any one else have this problem, or have a fix? Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 To get rid of the wall edge banding you need to profile your upper wall down to the bottom of the opening. You can do this with an extruded profile and the Fit Walls to Roof command using the bottom mode. Quote Link to comment
Tobias Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 (edited) This did not seem to work for me. I did Fit Walls to Roof > Fit bottom and selected the foundation layer (with the geometry of the cutouts), but the lines are still there in wireframe and render modes. Edited August 20, 2008 by Tobias Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 How did you notch the foundation? Did you split it and do it manually or did you use wall peaks? If you used wall peaks, just do the same thing to notch around the upper wall to remove then line across the bottom of the wall. This was discussed in this thread: http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Board=9&Number=107190&Searchpage=1&Main=22931&Words=notch+Pat+Stanford&topic=0&Search=true#Post107190 Pat Quote Link to comment
Tobias Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 (edited) Thanks Pat. I will do that. I edited the foundation (lower walls) with the 3d reshape tool manually. It seems to me that this is a bug. The R/Os are created by inserting the doors in to the Ground floor walls, those lines should not be there. Edited August 20, 2008 by Tobias Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I tend to agree that the lines should not be there, but I can see from a programming point of view why they are. They are defining the "edge" of the wall. I don't think there is enough inteligence in the wall object (any maybe not in my brain) to be able to correctly figure every situation to display or not the wall edge. The decision to always show it and allow the user to notch around the small percentage of objects that need it seems to be a fairly good solution. Pat Quote Link to comment
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