Thomas Wagensommerer Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Is it possible to join those walls in VectorWorks 2014? [img:center]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-04RsIlj-msE/U9qF2qmojVI/AAAAAAAABEQ/e3ahi8xAi7g/w426-h237/Walls.png[/img] Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 31, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yes, but I don't remember when that was added. Do you just mean joined, or is there something else that isn't happening in that image that you would expect to happen when they were joined? Quote Link to comment
0 Thomas Wagensommerer Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 There is no special magic requested. Just the missing line (part of a wall cap) should appear when the two walls are joined. I remember discussing joins like that in this forum in the year 2000. I am right now setting up a reminder for the 25th anniversary. Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 31, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 31, 2014 So the above image should look like this when the walls were joined? I just tried to do this with Component Join and was surprised to find it isn't possible. Submitting it now with clarifications. Quote Link to comment
0 Thomas Wagensommerer Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yes exactly. Thank you for trying. Quote Link to comment
0 michaelk Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 It does work with just a regular wall join. mk Quote Link to comment
0 Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted July 31, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 31, 2014 I think that was why it may have been missing for so long. With L, T and X joins the components can be made to wrap as expected, it only seems like these end-to-end joins is where it fails. Quote Link to comment
0 CipesDesign Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Thanks Jim, End to end joins are also critical where New and Existing Walls butt into one another. Because the join is not possible, there is also an erroneous line in Hidden Line (think final elevations, where you would call out a smooth transition, only to find a hard line at the butt join in elevation). This has been frustrating for years (maybe decades?) and there is no good workaround for it. Quote Link to comment
0 willofmaine Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The "L" mode of the Wall Join Tool will work (at least for simple, single component walls as shown in Thomas Wagensommerer's example). It will create the cap as shown in Jim's image, and there won't be the erroneous line in Hidden Line. Not exactly intuitive, but, it does work... Quote Link to comment
0 Thomas Wagensommerer Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 The L-Join actually works for simple walls. Thank you, I didn't notice that. Maybe we can add to the wish list, so that the "Join" menu command does this type of join too. Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 I second that request. Especially as you can't join Walls when they have custom Wall End Caps at Wall Ends. Also I see some problems with Wall joining if you have T or X crossings with different Thicknesses and Wall Styles. If you need a special order, f.e. 2 Walls L-join and the other Walls just touch the crossing. Quote Link to comment
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Is it possible to join those walls in VectorWorks 2014?
[img:center]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-04RsIlj-msE/U9qF2qmojVI/AAAAAAAABEQ/e3ahi8xAi7g/w426-h237/Walls.png[/img]
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