Tilt-up Concrete Walls

[Bill Russell]

What is the best way to model a two story concrete tilt-up building? Should the wall be modeled the as one 2 story wall?

Thanks for suggestions, Bill

[mike m oz]

Bill, I do it with separate walls per floor. That way you don't run into problems with having doors and windows stacked vertically in the same section of wall. As long as you have the walls correctly aligned vertically you won't see the horizontal join between the walls in Hidden Line Rendered views and Viewports.

If you have a section of window wall which runs over two storeys though this can be a little trickier. Easier in VW 2009 because the edge banding problem is no longer there if you use a symbol and a hole forming extrude.

[gmm18]

You can control wall height with the Layer Z Height and Delta Z settings.

An easy way to be sure that your walls are lined up properly between the 1st and 2nd Design Layers (so you don't see the line in HL Rendering) is to Draw the walls on your 1st Design Layer. Now duplicate them (with "Offset Duplications" Property turned OFF). Then in the Object Info Pallette, change the Design Layer location to your 2nd Design Layer. If you set the Layer heights as I mentioned at the top, then the walls will automatically move to where they need to go. Then adjust windows and doors as necessary.