Bob Levin Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Im new. I just got VW Architect 10.5. I can't get the walls to join when drawing with the wall tool. my wall type is standard 2x4x96 . I have 3 cavities checked.stud with drywall each side. I can't get an interior wall to join cleanly to an exterior wall. The "Auto join Walls" is checked by default in the preferences. Its a pain to have to select the wall Join tool or the Cavity Join tool and mess with the wall every time I join a wall. The five default constraints are still set. Any help would be appreciated. I'm really opptomistic about this program. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 6, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 6, 2003 When you're drawing walls with the wall tool, do other walls highlight? Quote Link to comment
Bob Levin Posted November 6, 2003 Author Share Posted November 6, 2003 Yes Robert. The walls highlight when using the wall tool. I must clarify. The wall does connect ok, however it is not a clean connection. one line is left and I then have to use the join cavity wall tool to open it up to form a clean connection. by the way,when I edit the wall type to "single cavity" It makes a clean connection. Thanks for your input. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 6, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 6, 2003 Your clarification makes sense. Right now, there's no way for any multi-cavity wall to know which cavity to join to an adjacent multi-cavity wall. However, the good news is that, once you have joined two walls, you can move the wall (with connected walls mode on) or reshape the wall (from the other end) and the cavity connections auto-heal. And this works no matter how complex the cavity joins. Quote Link to comment
ErichR Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Glad to have this cleared up. Thanks. But does auto heal work with the nudge command? What about the heal tool working intermitantly? [ 11-14-2003, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: ErichR ] Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 14, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 14, 2003 Auto-heal and connected walls do not appear to work with nudge -- I'll enter this in the bug list. I'm not aware of intermittentcy in the auto-heal -- can you elaborate exactly how you get it to fail? Quote Link to comment
ErichR Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 It's just a matter or drawing a few walls, independently of each other, and using the (I meant "Join") tool, clicked on two walls. An error message appears about 50% of the time, to the effect that the two walls can't intersect. However, if you use the Control-J command, they do join. (This is the Windows version.) Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 14, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 14, 2003 Ah, so you're not describing a failure in auto heal - you're describing a problem with either the join tool or the join command. First, is the problem with the tool or the menu command? Second, if the problem is with the tool, is it affected by which mode you have enabled (tee or ell?) Quote Link to comment
ErichR Posted November 15, 2003 Share Posted November 15, 2003 And the bad news is that you can no longer grab a wall and drag it off the plan (say, for later reuse), nor can you any longer highlite a group of walls and drag them to a new location (in order to reorganize your drawing), whether or not you are using autojoin. Also, this auto heal feature doesn't work with the nudge command. In addition, the heal tool works only sometimes. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted November 15, 2003 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted November 15, 2003 ErichR, you can absolutely do all these things. These functions are controlled not by auto-join, but by the "Connected Walls Mode". This is a mode in the mode bar. When you disable this mode, the walls behave as they used to. Quote Link to comment
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