Hi, Yeo,
If the walls have the same Family/Part assignments, when you create a Building View of the model the walls will automatically clean up. You have to do nothing to make that happen.
Sincerely,
Steve Stevens Product Manager - Bentley Architecture
I understand your requirement for monolithic constructions but the wall cleanup tool does not provide this type of cleanup in 3D, however walls will unify the connections if the walls have identical parts in the 2d representation (via the DEM or Dynamic Views). So you should be able to get this representation in your drawings and documentation. The other option to achieve the desire results is to use one of the Boolean tools (Tools>Solid s>Modify Solids>Unite Solids), but using a Boolean on the wall may prevent the wall from behaving like a wall with the wall modification tools, so it is really not recommended.
Regards Jeff Ashley Product Manager, Bentley Building
OK Thanks for the replies. I'm a couple of weeks away yet from doing a cartoon set and constructing the sheets but I'll expect that these delineations fall into place with the 2D representations based on the wall/part dataset assignments as you've described. The auto-sensing of wall types and auto-healing of same-type adjoining walls is a very nice feature...too bad that doesn't happen with the actual 3D entities instead. it might have made more sense conceptually to me had the auto cleanup you're describing occured to the 3D element and then the 2D representations to have derived their delineations from how those 3D entities were joined/not. The after-the-fact auto-healing of the 2D representations of them seems like it must've presented a much more difficult programming path to get to the desired output...plus now this way my 3D perspectives won't have the linework benefit of these intersecting 3D entities understanding their relationships; providing vertical lines denoting their intersecting vertical planes. But the 3D perspectives are a secondary concern to me for now; I can work with the solution you describe as in place to generate correctly the extractions (XM) and views (v8i).
I'll avoid using the boolan functions on these wall items since I'd then expect them to get demoted to simpler solid entities w/o the added intelligence of their dataset linked wall type characteristic.
I'm not sure what you mean by the autohealing doesn't work in 3D. There is no need for it to world in WireFrame. There are several other view rendering modes that will do this. Dynamic Views - when creating 2D representations is where you really want this to occur and it does. Regarding the production of lines where two planes intersect... You can use the File-->Save As function with the Merge Visible Edges turned on and this will create a vector set of graphcs that includes the line where two planes intersect.
I hope that helps.
Hmmm...perhaps I'm taking your initial reply too literally? I understood you to state that the auto-healing/cleanup would occur on the 2D linework as that output was being generated based on the 2D representations assigned to these 3D elements during the extraction/view setup task and thus the 3D entities in the model itself would remain uninformed about the adjecency and therefore unchanged. I've understood the 2D representations assignments in the extraction/view setup to be a substitution type action such as one might need to manage the LOD of an entity as it's to be displayed in the output view/file. Do you mean to say instead that the auto-healing is actually occuring on-the-fly in the 3D model but that my interactive wireline display setting is restricting me from seeing this ever-changing condition as I'm zooming around creating walls and performing other model building tasks? If this is so I'm puzzled: what purpose are the wall cleanup tools intended to serve then?
I'll create a few test extractions next week to clear up my understanding of this issue and confirm I "get" what you're communicating to me about this auto-cleanup issue. Thanks again for the help.