Controlling height of wall components.

[Christiaan]

This is a section through a lean-to. How do I stop the external insulation of the wall continuing down below the roof line? Can't be done right? I'd have to adjust the heights of the whole wall and the wall below right? Which I don't necessarily want to do.

Edited January 24, 2012 by Christiaan

[Dieter @ DWorks]

You can set an extra offset per wall component for a wall. The wall must be unstyled.

[Christiaan]

Ta.

[Farookey]

Hi...

How about a recess in wall? Although the component offset method is cleaner, what if the roof doesn't span the entire wall? Do you think the recess in wall would be more accurate? ... Just a thought

[djb]

? you should be able to control the height of the wall component by editing the components in the wall preferences, right?

[Kizza]

Similar to Farookey.

1) Draw a rectangle in iso view, (the area that you want to cut from the wall)

2) Convert to NURBS

3) Use the push pull tool so that the rectangle clears the wall

4) select both the wall and the rectangle

5) Model>Subtract Solids.

Another idea,

Create a window, select opening as the window type.

Edited January 28, 2012 by Kizza

[Guest]

Thank you for this article. That?s all I can say. You most definitely have made this post into something special. You clearly know what you are doing, you?ve covered so many bases.Thanks!

[Guest Wes Gardner]

I would create a Wall Style for those walls. In the Wall Component Attributes dialog, (enter the Edit mode for that wall style and click on that particular component) place a value in the "Offset from Wall Bottom" field. Positive numbers will shorten the particular component, negative values will lengthen it.

Keep in mind, ALL walls with this style will have that offset!

Sorry about the American Wall Style and dimensioning.

[Kizza]

But the lean-to may not cross the whole extent of the wall, as was previously mentioned.

[VincentCuclair]

Fit Walls to Roof has an option to constrain the bottom of the walls to the geometry, have you tried that? I guess the whole wall will be constrained which means the wall below will need to be higher......which means you might as well change the heights in both walls......just a thought.

Edited January 30, 2012 by Vincent C

[Dieter @ DWorks]

Keep in mind, ALL walls with this style will have that offset!

That's why it's wrong to keep the component offset in the wall style. The style should only say which components are in there, not their offsets. When you want to report your walls, those two (with and without extra offset) are the same, so it should be the same wall style.

[Dieter @ DWorks]

But the lean-to may not cross the whole extent of the wall, as was previously mentioned.

I solve this in 2 ways:

1) Cut your wall in parts and edit the wall the roof is on to.

2) Use a symbol that cut's out the part the roof is on to. This symbol can also have the roof in it.

Which one I choose depends on the situation of the whole drawing.

[VincentCuclair]

Keep in mind, ALL walls with this style will have that offset!

That's why it's wrong to keep the component offset in the wall style. The style should only say which components are in there, not their offsets. When you want to report your walls, those two (with and without extra offset) are the same, so it should be the same wall style.

ie. Component offset overrides. That will certainly make the wall style list a lot shorter! I'll add it to the wish list.

[Christiaan]

Similar to Farookey.

1) Draw a rectangle in iso view, (the area that you want to cut from the wall)

2) Convert to NURBS

3) Use the push pull tool so that the rectangle clears the wall

4) select both the wall and the rectangle

5) Model>Subtract Solids.

Another idea,

Create a window, select opening as the window type.

Tried this, then the hatch to that wall disappeared in my Section Viewports. Vectorworks BIM is like whack-a-mole. You think you've solved one problem only for another to pop up. Meanwhile nothing's actually getting designed... sigh.