Slab Depression

[Anonymous]

I have cut an opening in the floor slab and added Beams on either side of the opening and create another slab lower down in the opening to represent the depresssion. I have also used the Join Geometry tool to join them together but the slab line still showing. Please refer the attached image.

[Anonymous]

Is there a question here?

[Anonymous]

How did you get the sides for the depressed slab? Did you use walls or another thickened slab to reflect the depth between the floor at level and the depressed floor? If you used to the later the floor at level and the depressed floor slabs should clean up with the Join Geometry tool. If you used a wall the materials must be identical.

Hope this helps and gives you some insight as to cleaning up your problem. Of course you can always use the Linework tool to make any lines invisible.

Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
Technology to Visualize and Realize Solutions
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[Anonymous]

I have used 300X600 concrete beam to get the sides for the depressed slab.

[Anonymous]

Is this what you are trying to achieve? If so I did this with a 6" concrete floor with an opening and 6" concrete floor in the depression. I used two structural concrete beams (1'X2'). Then used the Join Geometry tool to join to the floors and beams together. Then I used from the Drafting tab Masking Region to mask out the lines that crossed through were the floors and concrete beams joined and the open depressed slab area at the bottom of the floor showing in the opening.

Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
Technology to Visualize and Realize Solutions
Modeling for the Future/Drafting in the Present/Building on the Past

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot for your reply. I got it but is it the only way to solve this kind of problem i mean it looks ok but it's not a perfect solution. I hope autodesk must be doing something to avoid these kind of patch work.

Regards
CP

[Anonymous]

Sorry, forgot to make the materisl for the beams and floors identical. So now the beams and floor clean up without having to use the Mask Region tool, unless you need to get rid of the bottom of the top floor slab in the background, but if you have another beam in the back and fore grounds you will not see this line.

Mel Persin, AIA
AEC Technology Consultant
Technology to Visualize and Realize Solutions
Modeling for the Future/Drafting in the Present/Building on the Past

[Anonymous]

True, it is ok if you are planning to render but the line still showing even after making the same material in the drawing area or in the print.

Thanks
CP