When drawing a wall you can switch the justification by hitting the CTRL key while you are drawing. This can be useful when you wish to align one face of two walls of different width.
o Walls have justification lines (where the grips are)
§ mid grip can move wall
§ end grips move wall ends (AVOID using these to lengthen a wall. You could unintentionally rotate a wall by a very small degree and not know it)
§ triangle grips change wall length along the axis of the wall (VERY VERY USEFUL FOR KEEPING WALL ORTHAGONAL!)
§ arrow grip reverses wall direction or flips justification line to other side of wall
Clean ups – The… triangles of death happen when walls don’t clean up right.
o Walls clean up better when justification lines are touching.
§ “Fillet” & “Chamfer” command works on the justification lines to join them
§ try flipping walls to get them to align or touch - click arrow near midpoint to flip the justification line.
§ extend walls using triangle grips at each end
§ check the walls to make sure they are not rotated only slighting or misaligned by a very small dimension
§ Newton’s Second Law – make sure you don’t have two walls drawn in the same place…
o If that don’t work, try monkeying with the “Cleanup Radius”
§ select one or more of the walls in question
§ right click & select “Cleanups”
§ select “Toggle Wall Justification Display”
§ pick the wall that is the most trouble
§ each end of the wall with have a second lighter cyan triangle grip
§ pick the new grip and stretch out the circle that appears to enclose the nearest other wall intersection
o If that don’t work try editing the clean up in place.
§ Type AECwallcleanupedit (if you like this command can be added to a toolbar or shortcut menu)
§ Use the grips to adjust the boundaries of the wall components
§ Click the “save” button (the one with the picture of a floppy disk)
o If that don’t work try adding a “Wall Merge Condition”
§ select one or more of the walls in question
§ right click & select “Cleanups”
§ select “Add Wall Merge Condition”
§ Pick all the walls you want to merge and hit enter
o If THAT don’t work, I guess you can come get Rick K so he can try all of the above and then bust your chops for either not trying the above or doing it wrong. And if he can’t figure it out, then go find some white out and a pencil.
Endcaps – for low walls, veneer returns and other walls
o Change the endcap style
§ Pick the wall & right click for the shortcut menu
§ Select “Endcaps” and then “Override Endcap Style”
§ Put the cursor near the end of the wall you want to change and left click
§ Select one of the preset endcap styles
o Edit in place
§ Pick the wall & right click for the shortcut menu
§ Select “Endcaps” and then “Edit in Place”
§ Put the cursor near the end of the wall you want to edit and left click
§ Grip edit the lines of the endcap and click the save button when you’re done
§ Select “Save as a new style”, give it an appropriate name and click “OK”
XCLIP – avoid it whenever possible when dealing with floor plans. It only makes walls invisible and invisible walls will still try to clean up with your visible walls causing more… triangles of death
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