Hi all,
I've started working through the Quickstart Architecture training and ran into trouble. The doors and windows are not cutting through the gyp board layer of the compound wall I've adjusted the sense distance to be larger than the wall and it still isn't cutting. If I place the window in the opposite direction it works fine. I searched the forum for a clue but didn't see an answer. Can anyone offer any advice? Sorry for such a basic question.
Hi John,
Can you please mention which Compound wall you are using? Also, please share the DataSet you are using.
Warm Regards,
Subhamoy Kundu
Hi Subhamoy,
I experimented a little more and I can only recreate the problem when using the TrainingTemplate_US. The other metric or US worksets I've tried work fine. Hope that helps narrow down my problem.
Thanks,
John
Using the US Training Template workset, I just placed a compound wall and then placed two doors and two windows within it, one in each direction, and all of them did generate openings.
Which specific walls, doors and windows are you using?
Hi Steve,
I was following along with this lesson on the learn server.
It uses the Building Examples workspace and the workset TrainingTemplate_US as a template. The lesson uses the wall type *Example | Brick + || Gyp and the window *Example | Fixed. Any of the doors have the same problem. Curtain walls cut fine.
The example compound walls with brick or cmu which have gyp board on the interior don't cut when the openings are oriented to the exterior. I've tried this on two different computers and get the same result. The metric datasets seem to be ok.
Of course this could also be a case of user error as I'm just starting to learn Openbuildings.
I do have the same observation.
One face of the wall is cut but the perforator does not cut through the entire width of the wall.
I have tried using some ridiculous sense distances but that too did not work. Further on walls which are thick (say custom walls 12", 24"), I have had the fiddle with the position of the door in the wall before the opening is created.
I too have used the US Dataset as the template.
I do believe there is something there worth checking into.
Regards
Tony.
Thanks, John and Tony. We've now filed Defect 1062371 against this. The core issue is the perforator itself is being "locked" at a value of 1', so any wall layer thickness greater than 1' within the Compound Wall is preventing the opening from be created in subsequent wall layers. If that makes sense.
If you can please file a Service Request so we can link them to the defect - strength in numbers.
Thanks Steve and Tony. I always tell my team, 99% of the time the problem is a user error. This must be the 1%. I'll file a Service Request.
-John