curve ramp and wall

[01chang]

Good day everyone:

I hope someone can help me to solve this problem. Now I have a curve ramp and I want to built a wall under the ramp. How can I cut or attach the wall just under the ramp? Thanks for all your help!

[cliff collins]

You can make the ramp from Floor(s), curving in plan, with Edited Points to set elevations (heights) at each segment of the "ramp" floor.

Once the "ramp" is created using Floors, you can attach walls to it.

Another way would be to create a Mass, then place Floors or Roofs by Face for the Ramp, and Walls by Face for the walls below.

See attached image.

[irneb]

This is also one of those stupid omissions from ADesk. Why can't a wall attach to the bottom / top of a ramp? Or for that matter the bottom of a stair? I constantly need to edit the profile of the wall closing the void under the first flight of a stair.

There are issues with using a slab as well as issues with a mass.

The slab needs you to calculate point elevations which are very cumbersome especially on curved ramps. Not to mention the plan view will show all sorts of slope-kink-lines making the whole thing into a bunch of triangles the more accurate you try to make it. If a slab's slope arrow could have been done as a curve, this might have been avoidable.

Mass, means a simple edit becomes a redraw. A whole lot more work than a simple edit of the ramp would have been.

[cliff collins]

Agreed. We should have the ability to attach to ramps and stairs, and a Tilt Wall Tool instead of having to use a Mass and Wall by Face. But--until then, use the workarounds, post on the Wishlists,
get on the Beta Tester forum, and hope for the next release!

Wow--just noticed, this is my 3,000th post. Woo Hoo! Got to that milestone just before the world ends tomorrow!