Quick thought:
The fact that all walls always connect to each other is very limiting. Until we have some advanced tool similar to Design Options in Revit, it would be nice if we could at least separate walls with some tag, so that only walls that have the same tag interact with each other. We should also be able to disable walls via specific tags.
For example,
Wall 1 has tag: A
Wall 2 has tag: B
Wall 3 has tag: A and B
Wall 1 (tag A) will interact with wall 3 (tag A and B) but will not connect to wall 2 (tag B)
If we disable tag A, we can safely hide the wall with this tag (wall 1) and it will not interact (i.e. there will be no remnants of the connection between the walls) with wall 3 (tag A and B, but A is disabled). This way only the interacting wall 2 and wall 3 will be in the scene because both have tag B.
This would also allow us to work on restoration projects where some walls need to be demolished.
Flexible BIM for Rhino is not all that flexible if we can’t work on different design concepts without weird workarounds.
An old wish of mine in VA.
There’s a feature similar to what you mean in Archicad. Each layer has an ‘intersection group’ index parameter (an integer). Only Objects that share a common such index will be joined.
I didn’t know about that topic, funny how similar examples are discussed in it. Thread is from the 2018, 6 years is a long time, someone could start their studies, finish them and the issue still stands… VA has some development pace but it’s too far from being a mature product, too many showstoppers unfortunately.
True… if you compare VA to one of those mature BIM solutions (and it’s fair to do so), it’s a looong way to go still.
I used Archicad for the last >2 years, and it’s brutally feature rich. Maybe less so in modelling goodness, but all the BIM features that an architectural practice really needs, and first and foremost, in it’s 2D drawing capabilities, but that’s another story. Rhino itself is just not good enough here.
A recently added Archicad feature were "design options’. They got this one right! Really useful and well integrated. Kind of a a second layer manager on top of the classic one. Set it up correctly, and you can export multiple design options of your building onto sheets with one(!) click, all correctly looking.
In Rhino, you have to emulate everything with layers and more layers. Design options? Even more layers. And that’s the problem with this missing join feature this thread is about - VA objects will join, even when they are not supposed to, which make design options in the same scene practically impossible. Shame.
+1