Plinth walls

[DE-Tech]

I am drawing up a garage which is a timber frame structure that sits on a brick plinth that rises up to 450mm above floor level.

How do I insert a door opening that will trim both wall types? At the moment the door will just trim the plinth wall?

[Monadnoc]

The old technique was to manually reshape one of the walls using the 3D reshape tool (may be called something else in 2014). Don't know if that's still applicable.

[taoist]

Another reason for vertically stacked wall components ability.

Tis a shame we need to have a work around.

What about Wall Sculpting?

I have never tried to do what DE-Tech is asking.

[Monadnoc]

I agree we should have vertically stacked wall components. This would be a great way to trim out a room, assuming you could also choose profiles. In terms of the plinth wall situation, I've never understood why door and window symbols just don't automatically cut through every wall they come in contact with. Why are they limited to one wall per symbol? Seems very odd to me. But the trusty 3D reshape tool at least does provide a workaround. You'll have to add vertices during the process.

[DE-Tech]

Further to my original thread, I've found a work around to keep the walls as wall elements rather than turning them into solid extractions.

I inserted the door into the lower wall element and then inserted a window opening of the same size in the top wall element which effectively gives me a cutout for the door frame to show through.

PS. Thanks for your email taoist, really informative.

[Monadnoc]

That work around works too. But you can reshape the wall using the 3D reshape tool and add vertices without effecting whether it is a wall or not. It remains a wall. There is no need to convert it to a solid or anything else. Although your solution might in fact be easier.

Edited October 6, 2013 by Monadnoc