Can't cut walls with Voids

[Anonymous]

I'm at my wits end trying to cut a wall with a void.  I want to chamfer the corners of a wall, but I can't get even a basic void to cut from a wall.  I get the error : "This Mass has no solid geometry for its Void Forms to cut. They must be deleted, or solid geometry added and cut."

They clearly intersect, what am I doing wrong?

[scott_d_davis · Accepted solution]

You are using a Mass object to cut a wall.  Mass voids cut Mass solids, not wall solids.  

Create an in-place family using the wall category, then draw the void shape. Use the Cut Geomety tool to pick the wall, then the void to cut it.

[Anonymous]

My first born to you.

[Anonymous]

What if the wall is at an angle. Everything I try wants to cut perpendicular. I want the cut to be straight thru, not perpendicular to the wall being cut. Thank you, Laura

[constantin.stroescu]

Maybe I miss something , but cutting with Component -Model In Place-Voids can be done also for angled cuts...Wall Opening is always perpendicular..

[Anonymous]

Apparently this procedure does not work for sweeps hosted to walls. Am I missing something? What do you have to do to trim sweeps if not with in-place voids?

[ToanDN]

Do you want the sweeps to be cut at an angle too, like below?

  

P/S:  Since there is a solution marked (and your issue is not exactly the same as the original), I would open a new topic so people don't assume everything is solved at a glance.  

[Anonymous]

Yes. How did you accomplish this? Voids cannot cut sweeps that are added as a profile to the wall on my end. I have to use in-place families in order to accomplish this. Please advise. Thanks!

[ToanDN]

You can do it by:

• Extend the wall sweep a bit
• Create parts
• Divide a part using a named reference plane matching the angle\
• Hide the unwanted piece.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for posting the video of your method. I think this highlights the missing functionality from sweeps as they are hosted by walls. That is an interesting method for dividing the parts, but having to hide these in associated views is far from ideal. Perhaps for unique conditions such as these, inplace sweeps should be used instead of those applied directly to the wall. This way one void does all the cutting. I've posted a suggestion to the idea portion of this forum to include the ability to make sweeps cuttable by voids. Please vote this up! Cheers!

[Anonymous]

thanks mate

[Anonymous]

my first AND second born to you!!!!!

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@scott_d_davis wrote:

You are using a Mass object to cut a wall.  Mass voids cut Mass solids, not wall solids.  

Create an in-place family using the wall category, then draw the void shape. Use the Cut Geomety tool to pick the wall, then the void to cut it.

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[thomasH93F9]

This doesn't work when the wall consists of parts where one part is demolished