Combining walls

[Atchison]

Is there a way to join or convert two lengths of wall, drawn end to end, into one wall?

[Bob Holtzmann]

I usually stretch one wall and delete the other. I know that line segments can be composed into a single poly in this manner. It would be great if several walls can similarly be composed into one wall, but their single line properties (end caps, direction, etc.) seem to prohibit this.

[Atchison]

I have also done that Bob but the problem is that any windows and doors in the deleted wall also disappear when the wall is deleted.

[bcd]

One option it to select all the windows & doors from one wall and pull them all out together.

Delete the offending wall.

rather than stretching the remaining wall use the Wall Join tool to reconnect the corner, If there is no corner you can extend the wall length in the OIP; (this ensures correct alignment for out of square walls and remakes the corner)

Then select the floating windows & doors pull them back in. They will all insert beautifully as expected.

[Barry_Williams]

In 2011 you can do an L-join on two alingned walls. I haven't tested it much but it certainly works well with two identical walls

[Bob Holtzmann]

One option it to select all the windows & doors from one wall and pull them all out together.

Delete the offending wall.

rather than stretching the remaining wall use the Wall Join tool to reconnect the corner, If there is no corner you can extend the wall length in the OIP; (this ensures correct alignment for out of square walls and remakes the corner)

Then select the floating windows & doors pull them back in. They will all insert beautifully as expected.

Good method, and it's also helpful to know that the mode button on the window bar needs to be set to allow the wall symbols to be pulled from the wall.

And joining walls is easy to do with Join menu command, also used for lines.