Battling with walls

[Anonymous]

I have a column in each corner of bldg plan.  I want the walls to stop at the corner.  Sounds easy.  But the walls want

to fillet themselves to each other.  I successfully achieved what I wanted at one location but cannot for my life replicate it at the other corner.

Please help.

Thanks,

JM

aca2011

win7 64

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I reversed the justification of the walls and it seemed to work.  Gosh it would be nice to be able control where a wall ended.

[David_W_Koch]

If the Justification Lines cross (or fall within a non-zero cleanup radius) within the height of one of the Walls, the Walls will clean up.  In your example file, putting the Justification Lines on the outside face of Wall allows the Walls to meet at the corners away from the Justification Lines (and at the corner of the column) without cleaning up.

You may also want to check the Autosnap settings for Walls, which are saved in each drawing, and can be accessed in the Options dialog, on the AEC Object Settings tab.  Look in the upper left corner, in the Wall Settings area.  You can independently turn Autosnap on or off for both newly drawn Walls and when grip editing previously created Walls.  There is also an edit box to set the Autosnap radius.  When active, if you draw/grip edit a Wall and try to place the endpoint such that it would be within the Autosnap radius distance of another Wall's Justification Line, the Wall will automatically snap to the other Wall's Justification Line.  This feature was added to make it easier to get Walls to clean up, but can make it difficult if you need to draw Walls in close proximity without having them clean up.  In those cases, you can turn Autosnap off or change the radius to make it easier/possible to draw what you need to draw.

You can turn off automatic cleanup for an individual Wall, but that may have unwanted side effects when other Walls are added.

If there were a compelling reason to keep the Justification Lines on the inside face of the Walls, you could use the edit cleanup in place feature to override the way the Walls cleanup and get them to stop at the column faces.  That would be additional work, but if keeping the Justification Lines on the inside is important, it may be worth the work. 

Another option would be to use Structural Members for the Columns, in which case you could use the Columns as interference objects on each of the Walls to trim the Walls to the Column faces.