Quick question: Is there any way not to view the lines with green Xs in hidden mode?
The circled element is a solid added or interfered to a wall.
Hi Gabriel, unfortunately it isn’t. Even if the solid added has the same section style than the wall.
Hello Gabriel,
a workaround could be to make a column from a custom curve, the outline of the solid. Then i believe if the column has the same style as the stone wall, hidden mode will take care of the offending curves.
best,
alex
*edit rushed answer, columns do not join with walls, and rightfully so.
Hello Gabriel,
not the best workaround, but maybe you could use this strategy we apply in case we have regular or weird holes in wall.
There is a layer that keeps all the solids to add interference to the walls that need the hole.
If you keep these in a layer add interference is parametric and you can modify the wall hole as needed.
Similarly in your case maybe if these non rectangular walls can be rationalized in wide wall width (lets say 60cm or larger) and then keep solids in the add interference layer to be removed from walls vertically.
A bit on the tedious side, but keeps BIM properties in wall styles.
irregul_stone walls.3dm (4.7 MB)
I believe same strategy would work if instead of add interference you would use VASubtract solids command. In the end we ended up preferring the add interference route, cant recall why.
Best
alexandros.
Hello Alexandros,
thanks for the reply. We follow a similar workflow, using solid substraction and interference, per case, based on wether a substraction is kind of static or dynamic (geometry changes etc).
I agree that keeping things clean with a dedicated layer for each function is crucial, especially for solid substraction –> when removing solids from VA object, it’s easier to collect them by layer and delete, manipulate etc.
For our case, of course the problem is that the green wall interacts with the stone wall prior to stone wall substraction. So after the substraction (or interference) the resulting geometry is the one with the interaction (dissappearance) of the green wall.
Maybe here there could be a feature demand. Taking into account of the wall interactions calculation the wall geometries after any solid substractions or controlling the steps for any interactions. For example select either to perform solid substraction prior wall interactions or after etc. Something like interaction history. @fsalla Maybe you have some opinion on this.
In future VisualARQ versions we are planning to add the “Interference groups” feature. This means you will be able to place walls in different groups, to prevent them from intersecting undesiredly. I guess this will provide some flexibility for cases like this one.
Hi Fransesc, great news. This sounds pretty promising in terms of control level. Do you have an estimation? 3.x, 4.x, 2026,2027? Till then, maybe through grasshopper and content cache mechanism we could create some kind of workaround.
For example, for now blocks containing vaWalls do not interact each other. So the groups may be constructed via blocks for now.
But I am curious, what operations do we have in wall interactions? Could we categorize them by translating them to rhino operations? For example boolean union between core layers etc?
I placed two identical walls on top of the other contained inside two separate blocks. Of course they do not interact each other. But this produces an unneeded line between them in the section.
So I can understand that there is a boolean union operation for each wall layer.
Anyway if you have any kind of direction or thought on a possible workaround via gh please let us know.
Complete control of what interacts with what, is going to unlock numerous workarounds for missing features such as LOD and Phasing.
Hi Gabriel,
The Intersection groups feature will be likely implemented in VisualARQ 4 (not before). I can’t give you the exact details of how it will work.
In addition to the intersection groups, we can add more options in wall joints to indicate whether you want to see or not the intersection line when walls are the same style or have the same section style / material.