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04-09-2013, 10:01 AM #1
Curved Walls & doors/windows
I almost always have a few curved walls in a plan. I also always have trouble placing doors & windows in any walls near the curved wall. It's not really placing the door/window in the nearby wall, but as soon as I try to center it or otherwise locate it, it jumps into the curved wall. Frequently the curved wall is 20'+ away & has nothing to do w/ where I am trying to put the door/window. Also, I can click on a straight wall on the other end of the house & get the curved wall.
What I end up doing is making the curved wall straight, taking care of the doors/windows & then recurving that wall.
Anybody else get this?Thanks, Jim
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04-09-2013, 03:25 PM #2
I have a horrible time with curved walls in general.
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04-09-2013, 05:23 PM #3
I haven't run into the things you mention specifically, but they are very tricky to lay out accurately, and the way they join with other walls can be nightmarish.
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04-09-2013, 11:44 PM #4
Jim,
2 questions.
Is your plan a long way from 0,0?
Do you have any zero thickness layers in any of your walls?Glenn
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04-10-2013, 03:59 AM #5
I also have a dislike for round walls...at least from a window and door standpoint. A trick that I have come up with is to create CAD lines and put them on my dimension layer, set them to where I want my window/door and then "paste" the unit to the CAD line. This seems to work everytime in getting the unit where I want it without having to fuss much at all. In this example I set the angles and places the dims....copied a unit the size I wanted there...and pasted to the CAD line..no jumping around.
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04-10-2013, 05:14 AM #6
Glenn,
Answer is "No" to both questions.
Model is at (0,0), left-front corner.
The walls are Interior-4 walls.
Joey,
I do the same as you.
Lay it all out w/CAD so I always know what/where they are supposed to be.
I sent the plan to TS.Thanks, Jim
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04-10-2013, 08:37 AM #7
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I'm not having any trouble with jumping doors. I've experiences jumping doors in the past when I have used very thin walls.
All of my curved walls start life as straight walls as it's easier to to control them, and the connections are always good.