trashcan Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 It seems to me that you should be able to set the Slab creation to Outer Boundary (when creating walls) but can't find it. Is it possible? Quote Link to comment
0 zoomer Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) Ahm, I think yes. No VW in front of me ... But I draw my Walls first and Slabs at the end. Structural Slabs by selecting bounding Walls. (+ Floor packages above, by Fill Bucket Tool into each Room/Space) If you have no different Floor packages by Room, you can work with a single multi compound Slab .... Generally it is important and helpful to set a "Core" for the suitable Wall Component for multi Component Walls. In Slab Style you can set for every Slab Component where it will end, outer Wall Line, inner Wall Line, outer Core, inner Core, .... AFAIK that will even work when you haven't set correct Wall Component Bottom Heights by Story Levels - the Slab will cut out the Wall Components .... E.g. I will set my outer Insulation/Covering Wall Components to a Story Level "Bottom of Structural Slab" while my Structural Wall Core will sit on top of "Top of Structural Slab". Accordingly in Slab Style, Structural Component will be defined to go to "outer Side of Core", while non- structural Floor Components will only got to "inner Side of Wall" Edited October 11, 2021 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
0 Pat Stanford Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 I does seem to be missing from the VW2021 Slab tool where you have to select each wall segment manually. Workaround may be: Marquee select walls. AEC:Create Polys From Walls: Gross Area AEC:Create Objects From Polys:Slab Delete the Poly. 1 Quote Link to comment
0 trashcan Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 👋 @Pat Stanford The work around I used was to create the slab using the inner boundary. Then, edit the boundary and use the offset tool with the wall thickness set as fixed offset amount. Done! Quote Link to comment
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It seems to me that you should be able to set the Slab creation to Outer Boundary (when creating walls) but can't find it. Is it possible?
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