Help creating tapered and odd shaped walls

[mjsmithvt]

Does anyone know if you can create tapered walls in VW?

Or can you create walls from a polygon? I know you can create walls around a polygon, but can you turn a polygon or an extruded polygon into a wall?

I am working on a project with some odd shaped existing walls and I can't figure out a way to create a few of the walls without creating a polygon and extruding it.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

I am using VW 2013

[Pat Stanford]

VW Walls are always the same thickness and rectangular.

If you want something that is like a wall but not rectangular use your polygon and convert it to a pillar. (AEC Menu, Pillar).

You can then use the Wall Join tool to connect your other walls to the Pillar.

[mjsmithvt]

Thanks that helped!

[barkest]

Another method is to use a wall feature (AEC > Create Wall Projection). With this method you can then take advantage of the various wall parts which may be a good way to go if you need to texture each side of the wall separately.

[Christiaan]

On 5/16/2013 at 9:47 AM, Pat Stanford said:

VW Walls are always the same thickness and rectangular.

If you want something that is like a wall but not rectangular use your polygon and convert it to a pillar. (AEC Menu, Pillar).

You can then use the Wall Join tool to connect your other walls to the Pillar.

Would be nice if the Pillar object could be bound to levels, top and bottom.

[Benson Shaw]

@mjsmithvt also check out these threads/posts regarding walls with slanted, canted, or otherwise shaped profiles, via insertion of a wall cut symbol:

 

and

 

-B