Christiaan Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 (edited) Attached is a masonry cavity wall corner I've modelled. The pier is formed with use of the Wall End Cap. It works really well but now I want to reduce the pier to 330 mm. What do you reckon is the best way to model this pier at 330 mm wide? example-v2017.vwx example-v2018.vwx Edited September 21, 2017 by Christiaan Quote Link to comment
Urbanist Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 What is the brick size? One of the first real jobs I did as a young student was to dimension a brick facade. It was sort of fun because a couple of years earlier I had worked on a building site as a brickies' brick & mortar boy and spent a lot of time selecting bricks of suitable size as a foundation pour had not gone exactly right and six storeys worth of both oversized and undersized bricks were needed. The bricklaying work was done from hanging platforms that had to be manually lifted by means of winch levers in 5 or 6 frames. One of my duties was to receive loads of bricks and mortar, lifted by a crane with no direct sight to most locations, yelling instructions to the crane operator via a walkie-talkie from between the incoming load and building wall. Probably an illegal situation, but in 1972 no-one cared too much about occupational safety. 1 Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) Bricks are 215 x 102.5, so dimension would actually be 327.5 Edited September 21, 2017 by Christiaan Quote Link to comment
Urbanist Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 12 minutes ago, Christiaan said: Bricks are 215 x 112.5, so dimension would actually be 327.5 Lucky you: the dimensions are easy. In my time I had to deal with 270 x 130 which caused interesting overall dimensions. Later they developed a new size 285 x 85, which gave a 100 mm grid, when laid as 1/3 but the result was horribly ugly. I guess would lay virtual bricks but nevertheless do my calculations. Also, in my short time on the building site the supervisor liked to save on mortar so should there have been piers like that, they might have been smaller than designed. To be honest, I liked saving mortar, too, because receiving the mortar container to the platform was really scary; a 300 kilogram payload of mortar swinging towards you several times a day was not fun. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 This is all I've come up with so far. Feels inelegant. solution-1-v2017.vwx solution-1-v2018.vwx Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 3 new Wall Styles for the corner ? - outside red - outside gray - inside yellow/gray/white/white So to get 2 Walls, inside and outside. And finally bump those 2 Wall Heads again non capped against the 6 Componant Package Wall ? 1 Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 Hmm, nice thought. Although I need to insert windows/doors into the grey/grey wall. I guess I could insert a blank casing into one of them but would cause a bit of fluffing about. Quote Link to comment
Popular Post twk Posted September 21, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) Having a brain-block on a project at the moment, thought I might have a crack at this. example-v2017_tui.vwx Edited September 21, 2017 by twk edit 5 Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) Ah, I see, yes! Cheers kiwi fulla. I think that's what Zoomer meant as well. Great, thank you guys, I think that will do the trick Edited September 21, 2017 by Christiaan 1 Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 (edited) Yes, that’s what I meant. Beautifully illustrated ! Edited September 21, 2017 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
AlanW Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Yes and if you group that section it tends not to try to join the other parts of the wall and go out of wack. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 I couldn't get the walls to join if I cut them right at the corner so I cut them 10 mm away. Thanks guys, works great 👍🏼 solution-2-v2017.vwx solution-2-v2018.vwx Quote Link to comment
Gadzooks Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Feel the love. Its great when you see how this forum works and this thread shows it from start to finish. Quote Link to comment
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