Wall Sweep Won't Clean

[Anonymous]

All,

This one is throwing me for a loop, I have a simple wall with a mitered corner and a wall sweep on the top and bottom. Neither wall sweep is integral to the wall both are applied. I have checked and the ends are in the right place, but the wall sweep at the base of the wall will not clean up. I have attached an image that should hopefully make sense of it all.

Wyatt

[ToanDN]

Can you copy the two walls and wall sweeps at the corner, paste to a new file and share?

[Anonymous]

Hello @Anonymous,

Maybe your problem is the alignment of your wall where the wall sweep hosted.

try to isolate those wall and check if it is perfectly aligned

[Anonymous]

I can, not sure what good it will do, the file doesn't act the same. When it is pasted into another file the sweeps will join.

[Anonymous]

A good thought arjay, but I already checked that. The wall top and bottom are the same height and the wall join is good. Interestingly when I change the material to be the same and remove then place the sweep again the joins will clean.

[ToanDN]

That is because you having two different sweeps.  You can add segments to one sweep and it should fix it.  If you want to stay with two sweeps then you need to modify the return to miter with the end of the adjacent one.

[Anonymous]

I am aware that there are two different sweeps, and that it can be fixed by having all segments be the same type, but I have a material change that is reflected in elevation and necessitates the two types.

I assume the answer is no, it is not possible to miter the two wall sweeps of different types only to modify the return around the edge and have an odd condition like the attached image.

I do find it odd though that at times the two different wall sweeps will actually miter.

[ToanDN]

Edit: screencast added

What you show is not miter join, just a return.  The parapet caps you show don't miter either.

Below is a workaround.

[Anonymous]

If you look at the first pdf that I attached "Example 1.pdf" you will see that in fact the coping at the top of the wall is mitered even though it is attached to the same wall as the lower banding and is constructed in the same way. The work around you show is basically the same as mine and it seems clear that there is no way to "fix" the issue only ways to work around it.

At this point I am just trying to understand why the two wall sweeps are acting differently. Perhaps futile, but simply curious. I will attach a file in which I have replicated the circumstance shown in "Example 1.pdf" namely that the coping at the top is mitered even though it consist of two different types.