beanus Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 can't make these walls join properly, (see attached file) can anyone help? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 (edited) this is possible, but you need a silly workaround. Make a ploygon shape for the area where all the walls overlap. make that into a pillar, and then you can join the walls to it. I have covered this in my short manual on 022 Drawing a Refurbishment Project from this web site: http://www.archoncad.co.nz/manuals/manuals/short.html Edited February 21, 2011 by Jonathan Pickup Quote Link to comment
bc Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Not sure what you mean by "properly" but I got it to look OK in plan but it may not be what you want in 3D. First, I aligned the two horizontal walls to their bottom edges. Then I gave the vertical wall an end cap. Then I T-joined the thick wall to the vertical wall and then L-joined the small horizontal wall to the vertical wall. Quote Link to comment
cbd Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Are all your walls slightly out of square? I find if the angles are "out" you definitely have to use a pillar as Jon suggested. Quote Link to comment
bc Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I found that they were slightly out of square so I also squared them up but didn't think that should matter. Quote Link to comment
beanus Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 the walls are meant to be out of square, this an old building which is being converted from a barn to a dwelling Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 You don't need a column to do this wall join: * Make the vertical wall come further then the other two. * T-join the horizontal walls to the vertical wall. * Cut the vertical wall at the lower end points. * Set the end cap on of the vertical wall. This is a very simple one, You'll have trouble when this would be a wall with components, but that can be solved with symbols. Quote Link to comment
J Lucas Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 How can symbols be used to help with complex wall joins? Quote Link to comment
Dieter @ DWorks Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 How can symbols be used to help with complex wall joins? There is a bug in the wall joins, and because of that bug, The wall components will not always be cut off correctly (they will not be cut off at all). Because of this, You'll have troubles rendering and calculating the values. Therefore, you can make symbols that will cut off the part that need to be cut off. Symbols are great for this because they will move with the walls. Quote Link to comment
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