Center Line Over Wall Hinders Door Placement Into Wall

[Pat Stanford]

Hi All,

I don't use the Architect features enough to know if there is a good work around for this.

Say you have a hallway and have drawn a centerline that crosses the end wall of the hall. You now want to insert a door in the wall centered on the wall. When you click to insert the door, it does not recognize the wall, but rather the center line and you get a Door rather than a Door in Wall.

What is the best way to work around this problem?

Would the answer be different for VW2008 versus VW2010?

Thanks!

[ionw]

Down and dirty is to take the 'guideline' and send it to the back or bring the walls to the front. the object object snap will still work through the wall. should work the same 2008-2010 and before as well.

Cheers,

Ion

[Matt Panzer]

Hi Pat,

Use the Offset Insertion Mode. This mode is available for Door, Window, Symbol (and maybe others) insertion. It lets you select a reference point anywhere in the drawing (in this case, where the line and wall intersect), then insert the door into the wall anywhere, then you will be prompted to set the distance from the reference point. Type zero and click "ok" and you got it.

This feature has been in VW for quite a few versions.

HTH,

Matt

[bcd]

cmd B

send to back.

Pick up a smart point from the line

In it goes.

Or if it happens a lot - place all your guidelines / center lines on a separate layer

Layer Options>Show Snap others.

[bcd]

Or probably better yet,

Included all guide lines in a Guides Class

and set it to grey.

[Jonathan Pickup]

if you use the command to make guides, they are automatically placed on the guides class, then use the Navigation palette, or the Visibility tool to hide the guides.

for users in my short sharp training (monthly) we covered this in epodcast077 in February 2009