2010 Auto Wall Join in DLVP

[Tom Pearce]

When we got viewports, we got the ability to design exterior walls for, say, an apartment building and then bring in interior units as modular DLVP?s. I did that in 2009. How do I do that in 2010 and have the component wall joins work? Before, I could create the wall joins of the interior walls to dummy exterior walls and then delete the dummies. The join configuration of the interior wall did not change and presented just fine as long as their DLVP was above the exterior walls in the stacking order. Now that I have a more capable modern wall network technology, I can?t find a technique to allow me to get this capability. The documentation states that the wall heals if the Auto Join Wall Preference is turned on. That made me think that turning it off would prevent them from healing. That doesn?t seem to be the case. It heals. What am I missing? -Wall styles have a core designated and the same fill hatch.

[Tom Pearce]

I think I've found an answer:

I can assign the ?dummy? exterior wall to a special class, which I can make invisible. This works for a simple T join, which is the most common occurrence.