Sliding Door Window not showing through bottom wall

Sliding Door Window not showing through bottom wall

Jennifer_AmstutzWhee
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Sliding Door Window not showing through bottom wall

Jennifer_AmstutzWhee
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Hello, I have 2 walls in an area, a bottom wall and a wall on top of the bottom wall. I have sliding glass doors on this wall and you can see through the top wall, but not the bottom wall. How do I make it where I can see through the sliding glass doors through both walls?

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ToanDN
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Join the top wall and the bottom wall and the door will cut both.

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Jennifer_AmstutzWhee
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I tried to join both of the walks and it wouldn’t let me.
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ToanDN
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Is that a curtain wall?  If so, you can use Cut Geometry to cut the wall with the curtain wall.  If it is a door/window family then open the family and see if there is a void cut or an opening cut.  Can you share the model here?

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Jennifer_AmstutzWhee
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Not a curtain wall. It is just 2 basic walls and a slider.

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ToanDN
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@Jennifer_AmstutzWhee wrote:

Not a curtain wall. It is just 2 basic walls and a slider.


Copy paste the two walls and the window to a new file and share it.

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Jennifer_AmstutzWhee
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I figured it out. You have to make sure both of the walls are the same. So I duplicated one of the walls and added the different material to the duplicated wall. Then I made sure they were perfectly lined up. It is working now. Thank you!

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ToanDN
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@Jennifer_AmstutzWhee wrote:

I figured it out. You have to make sure both of the walls are the same. So I duplicated one of the walls and added the different material to the duplicated wall. Then I made sure they were perfectly lined up. It is working now. Thank you!


Maybe it works for you but I have door or window cutting through multiple walls of different thicknesses stacking vertically all the times.  I think your window has a void instead of a cut opening, that why the cutting depth is fixed to the host wall thickness.

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