BIM_SIG_043 Architect Special Interest Group April 2014 (am)

In this session we looked at the problem where you want to have a thicker wall at the lower part of the wall. In this example we looked at a wall that had brick at the lower part and stucco above, but the same techniques would be used on any wall that wanted to have two thicknesses.
 

Topics covered:

• Brick wall below, stucco wall above
• wall preferences
• setting a component with an offset from the wall top
• creating a wall with a lower thick portion and a thinner upper portion
• creating a wall with a baseboard or skirting
• turn off Follow Top Wall peaks
• when you adjust the wall height, the baseboard and lower wall change height.
• inserting a door into the wall
• assigning a texture to the lower part of the wall
• creating a wall recess
• creating a wall projection, using a 3D object for the lower wall
• drawing the cross-section through the lower wall, then create an extrusion
• using Set Position… to move the door
• creating a section viewport
• using an extrusion to create the lower part of the wall
• using the Split tool and the Push/Pull tool to edit the extrusion
• adding a texture to the extrusion
• adding a door to the extrusion using automatic working planes and solid modelling
• stacking two wall types or draw one wall in front of another
• creating an odd shaped window in a wall
• Use Symbol Geometry with a window
• symbol insertion position
• editing the Wall Hole Component to change the wall hole
• assigning the window to a schedule
• using the eyedropper tool to copy the attributes of a window and make them the default

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