I've got a BIM model of a house. It's mass timber (CLT) construction and so I am trying to export just the structural components layer (the CLT) into a generic format for engineering and shop drawings, after cleaning up all junctions etc.
The problem is that one of the walls seems to 'jump' around in the exported file - it looks like it shifts from its end point to its start point , both horizontally and vertically (i.e. one point is the same but then the wall goes off in the opposite directions from there). From what I can see it's just one wall so far that does this, it's in the same class and layer and same wallt type as others in the file. I've attache a screenshot prior to exporting and one after re-importing the exported dxf to an empty file to illustrate the issue.
What I've done to avoid any potential error prior to exporting :
- The walls are not storey bound (but set to /offset from layer heights etc).
- They've all been simplified, i.e. all other components deleted rather than just switched off, then converted to a wall style that has only one component (CLT) in it.
- I've also unstyled the walls but makes no difference in the exported file.
- I've tried exporting from the original file, but also copied all walls and solids over to an empty file and tried exporting from there, all with the exact same results
- I've tried converting to generic solids prior to export (but VW doesn't convert the walls to generic solids, so again this didn't help).
(Btw, I've just tried exporting to SAT - that seems to work fine, but it's no good for the other parties.)
Any ideas what's going on and, more importantly, how can I get a working file out of my model to pass on ?
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I've got a BIM model of a house. It's mass timber (CLT) construction and so I am trying to export just the structural components layer (the CLT) into a generic format for engineering and shop drawings, after cleaning up all junctions etc.
The problem is that one of the walls seems to 'jump' around in the exported file - it looks like it shifts from its end point to its start point , both horizontally and vertically (i.e. one point is the same but then the wall goes off in the opposite directions from there). From what I can see it's just one wall so far that does this, it's in the same class and layer and same wallt type as others in the file. I've attache a screenshot prior to exporting and one after re-importing the exported dxf to an empty file to illustrate the issue.
What I've done to avoid any potential error prior to exporting :
- The walls are not storey bound (but set to /offset from layer heights etc).
- They've all been simplified, i.e. all other components deleted rather than just switched off, then converted to a wall style that has only one component (CLT) in it.
- I've also unstyled the walls but makes no difference in the exported file.
- I've tried exporting from the original file, but also copied all walls and solids over to an empty file and tried exporting from there, all with the exact same results
- I've tried converting to generic solids prior to export (but VW doesn't convert the walls to generic solids, so again this didn't help).
(Btw, I've just tried exporting to SAT - that seems to work fine, but it's no good for the other parties.)
Any ideas what's going on and, more importantly, how can I get a working file out of my model to pass on ?
Thanks !
Marc
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