Some noob questions

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Hi Mark, this layer organization is totally fine. Just take into account that if you want to place the VisualARQ objects into a specific layer, depending on the object type, you can also organize it from the Document Properties > VisualARQ > Layers.

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All right. It seems quite useful to me to utilize the parent layers as the ‘visibility toggle’. That way I don’t have to touch the list of component layers, because it’s becoming quite extensive.

In the Dutch methodology they make a distinction between exterior and interior walls for instance, and openings in these walls. I am following this method for the layer numbering and naming (there is a button for English version).

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@ME_Mark @FORARK @Prehabitat just in case you haven’t tried this new feature yet in VisualARQ 2, take a look at this video: https://youtu.be/rdX7I79qTTI

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I have been working on the tutorial and I am having some diffilculties with wall joint types.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get them to work. I have added two examples from the tutorial that don’t give the results shown in the tutorial.

  • the one with the rooflights: the upper one has the butt walljoint, but the sort order doesn’t matter for the result.
    the lower one a miter joint, and the sort order doesn’t matter either for this result.rooflight%20wall%20joint
  • the other shows the same problem
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  • And I don’t get the right wall joints on the terrace level where a glass wall joins two 200 mm thick walls
    walljoint-3

Something different; I can’t find the wall add solid command. The red concrete pieces should be joined with the curved wall.

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Hi @ME_Mark,

Do you want this result:

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In this case, the sort order will not affect, because the sort order is to change how the joint is solved, but this upper part of the wall is in a no-joint area, because the other wall is smaller. I’ve just used the control points to extend the wall.

The command is now generic and applicable to all VisualARQ elements, so it is now called vaAddSolids.

Regards,

Enric

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Hi Enric,

Thank you for the first part, it’s working as it should. Don’t know why I haven’t tried that for my self in the first place :roll_eyes:.

For the second part, I have used vaAddSolids on these walls, but I end up with several wall pieces that each contain the red parts. And in the video tutorial the red edge bars take over the color of the wall. In my case it doesn’t.