ronbjr Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hi There, I'm still a newb to 3d creation, so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have created walls for a model of a new home build. The roof of the home is a tall A-frame style roof. I have used the Split tool to cut my angles for the roof line. After cutting the walls, they all become Solid Sections. Is there a way to convert them back to a walls or should I be doing this a different way? All of the selected walls in the attached image have been converted to Solid Sections. Thanks, Ron Quote Link to comment
Markvl Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 @ronbjrthere is a way to keep your walls walls and make these peaks. Your walls will need at least one component. In the pic attached you will see on the left side Component Top and Component Bottom and in each of those sections a check box "Follow Top or Bottom Wall Peaks" This will allow you to double click the wall and activate the "Reshape tool" select the "+" symbol to add another node to the wall. Select in your case the upper left or upper right node and drag it up and over to create the peak. Voila. Your wall will continue to behave as designed. You can change the length, add openings, further modify your peaks etc. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Mike Lamb Posted December 5, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hi ronbjr, Have you tried using the fit walls to objects command under the AEC menu? That will create the peaks for you automatically, once the roof is in place. Just draw the walls, place the roof, then use the "fit walls to objects" on walls where you have gables. Or as an alternative, you can go into the roof settings, and check "show wall" where you are using gables. Quote Link to comment
Kevin McAllister Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 FYI if you'd like to revert your trimmed walls back to walls, you should be able to select the solid sections and ungroup them. This should give you the original wall and the sectioning plane which you can just delete. Kevin Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 You could also use the Reshape tool and manually add and locate a wall peak. But especially with multiple walls, it is probably easier to create the roof (or some temporary geometry) and use the Fit Walls to Objects command as @Mike Lambsuggested. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Luis M Ruiz Posted December 15, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 15, 2017 Agree. Do not slice the wall, reshape the picks. Quote Link to comment
ronbjr Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 Thanks everyone. You are correct...the fit walls to objects command proved to be the easiest way of achieving this. I really appreciate all the input. Ron Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Great thread everyone, thanks, learned alot listening in. Quote Link to comment
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