Tilted walls?

[CADMama]

Anyone ever tilt walls? Would you just rotate the UCS?
CADMama

[david_peterson]

Are you talking about a vertically slopped wall? I think in order to do that you will need to add a sweep to the wall, some type of body modifier. You would just rotate the wall (rotate3d), but you're clean-ups aren't going to work.

[CADMama]

Are you talking about a vertically slopped wall? I think in order to do that you will need to add a sweep to the wall, some type of body modifier. You would just rotate the wall (rotate3d), but you're clean-ups aren't going to work.
I am not exactly sure what they are wanting to do - here is what they sent me:

6) How do you tilt walls vertically?

Let's not even talk about questions 1-5 that they sent.

[david_peterson]

Sorry, That's one I don't have a good answer for. You can do this with walls and curtain walls in that other program, I'll have to try and think of a good way to accomplish that one.

[CADMama]

Sorry, That's one I don't have a good answer for. You can do this with walls and curtain walls in that other program, I'll have to try and think of a good way to accomplish that one.
I know that the other "community" has a good answer for this one but I am just not sure about ADT.

[david_peterson]

I know that the other "community" has a good answer for this one but I am just not sure about ADT.Well I do Know of one way to get what you need, but I'm not sure about the results. Truth be told I think that other program handles this task better. But you could create a Mass Element of the shape you want/need and covert it to a wall. You can do just about anything with mass elements.

[jdmc]

You just draw a closed polyline describing a section through the wall in question, save it as a profile, then apply it to the wall as a sweep modifier. Or you can simply edit it in place, not so hard. The tricky bit is to get it to display correctly in plan.

[Steve_Bennett]

If I think I understand what they want, you can select a wall, go to properties palette, scroll all the way to the bottom & select the worksheet icon for Floor/Roof line & manually edit the floor base line or roof line. Or you can go into an isometric view & use the grips to edit the wall that way. Or if you have slabs or roof objects, you can automatically project your walls to them via the right click menu for floor/roof line... modify.

P.S. - Hope your new job is going well CAD Mama!

[cgraham]

CadMama, I tried all the ways suggested above. The route of converting a mass element to a wall does not allow for changing the wall length. The sweep profile seems to be the only one that resembles a tilted wall. However, there are some display issues with it. In the short time I played with it, I could not get the display to show the wall edges at the baseline. This gets very tricky, because dimensions are taken from the baseline. It will appear that the dimensions are not tied to the wall at all, but are floating in space, instead.

Doors and windows are placed in the wall relative to the baseline. I could not find a way to slope the doors or windows to match the slope of the wall. The openings can be made to appear correctly, albeit with vertical doors and windows, but it will take a thick wall.

Autodesk's Discreet office in San Francisco encloses some work areas with tilted walls curved in plan, and with a serpentine top. I never have figured out how they did that in ADT. And this was completed before that "other" software was released.

[david_peterson]

CadMama, I tried all the ways suggested above. The route of converting a mass element to a wall does not allow for changing the wall length. The sweep profile seems to be the only one that resembles a tilted wall. However, there are some display issues with it. In the short time I played with it, I could not get the display to show the wall edges at the baseline. This gets very tricky, because dimensions are taken from the baseline. It will appear that the dimensions are not tied to the wall at all, but are floating in space, instead.Override the display setting and force the cut plane to groud 0. That takes care of that problem.

[jdmc]

Yes, but what is technically correct is a cut at 1400mm (sorry metric) and a light line at the base, in elevation.

[Steve_Bennett]

Override the display setting and force the cut plane to groud 0. That takes care of that problem.Yes, but what is technically correct is a cut at 1400mm (sorry metric) and a light line at the base, in elevation.
Check out the Horizontal Section tool for use on tapered/tilted walls or clerstory windows. That should get you the desired view of the floor plan.