Bevel ends on walls

[caroline1772]

I have 2 methods for creating bevelled ends on walls.

I'd welcome any comments, feedback and further suggestions.
The first method which is useful for shapes other than a straight bevel is to create a wall component family in place as an extrusion solid. But it's height cannot be tied to a level.

Then someone told me about a method which I thought was very interesting. You create a very skinny wall (in my case 5mm thick) and draw it across the end of the major wall at the required angle. The major wall will then join to it at an angle. You can then use the split tool to remove any extra lenghts of the skinny wall.

see attachment

[beegee]

While the 5mm wall is a neat method, I would only use it when I'm sure I wouldn't have to move walls around. ( and thats never happened to me yet. )
My concern is with managing these almost invisible walls in terms of remembering to attach them to roofs, floor etc, or with splitting walls or editing wall joins or one of the many other operations performed on walls.

I don't deal with a lot of bevelled walls, so the extrusion method is the one I would chose.

Subject to other, wiser, comments, this post might have to moved to the tipntricks forum.

Good one Caroline.

[PeterJ]

Go on Beegee, get your moderator cap on and move it.

Okeedokee, consider it done. ..................
youre a hard task master Peter J

beegee

[aaronrumple]

My preference is to use a single layer of the finish material. Typically when I have a complex wall corner it is gyp. bd. or some other malliable material. I'll just add a single layer for the shape I need. Of course the void left is where my blocking would be. I can then group the objects as needed.

[Scott Hopkins]

Aaron

Good tip! So simple, but it still never occurred to me. Your idea seems to be the cleanest and most effective way to make a tapered or unusually shaped wall end. The only place where this trick would not work is with a concrete wall where the finish and the structure are the same thing.

[caroline1772]

I think you are right Scott. I tried putting a skinny concrete finish on both sides of a concrete wall and used another skinny wall (finish only) to draw an irregular end. The results were not great because if you check out the file I uploaded the end of the major wall doesn't disappear as it did in Aaron's file. Did I miss a trick?

[Wes Macaulay]

Aaron used the linework tool to eliminate the end line of the wall nearest to the bevelled wall end.