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Thread: Room Divider Gone Wild!
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01-13-2014, 07:32 AM #1
Room Divider Gone Wild!
X6. Using the new 'room divider walls'. Trying to copy an window by dragging on existing and it jumps to a room divider wall. Trying to resize a door on an interior wall and it jumps to a room divider wall. Any one having these problems?
Well, crap, I would post a pic I can't get 'insert image' to work...
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01-13-2014, 07:34 AM #2
Make sure the layer of the wall IS NOT LOCKED. It probably is not, but double check.
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01-13-2014, 08:08 AM #3Registered User Promoted
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I used to have the jumping door and window problem in previous versions using very thin walls as room dividers. Sounds like it could be a similar problem with the room divider walls.
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01-13-2014, 08:40 AM #4
Bill, just tried to put a door and a window in a room divider wall. Could not do it.
I then tried to copy a door from a wall to the room divider wall, and it worked.
I then tried to copy a window from a wall to the room divider wall, and it worked.
Not sure why you are having problems.D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
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01-13-2014, 08:59 AM #5Bill Lynch
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01-13-2014, 09:06 AM #6
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01-13-2014, 09:13 AM #7
Windows 7 has a snipping tool for screen capture
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01-13-2014, 09:17 AM #8
Interestingly, a Door or Window copied into a Room Divider will show up in the Schedule but of course it's not visible in any 3D View.
IAE, IMO this is just something we need to deal with - we can easily see it's not right so we can just fix it ourselves. Granted it doesn't make sense for a door or window to be in any invisible wall. CA programmed it so you can't place one but failed to recognize that they needed to make the same restriction for copy/move. It's just one of those cases where we can do something that CA didn't anticipate. Sometimes that's good because it provides a "work-around" solution for something we want to do that isn't otherwise provided for. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense.
I haven't tried it yet, but if a standard wall with a door or window in it is changed to a Room Divider - will the door/window still be there or will it be deleted?Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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01-13-2014, 09:27 AM #9Tommy Blair
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01-13-2014, 09:28 AM #10
OK, so this is weird.....
If you change a normal wall to a Room Divider it isn't automatically marked as "Invisible" so a door or window will still be visible even though you can't see the wall in 3D because the "Wall Material" 100% transparent. However, if you then specify the wall as "Invisible" then the Door/Window won't show up in 3D.
At the same time, you can specify a "Room Divider" as "Not Invisible" and any Door/Window in that wall will now show up in 3D.
This is definitely interesting and provides some possibilities for doing things that might be cool...............Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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01-13-2014, 09:30 AM #11Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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01-14-2014, 06:20 AM #12Bill Lynch
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01-14-2014, 06:35 AM #13D. Scott Hall (The Bridge Troll)
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The videos we watch are not 100% gold, but if we find a gold nugget, the time spent viewing has a value.
We can please some of the people some of the time, but we can't please all the people all of the time..... but I will keep trying.
If you are interested in keeping abreast of any new videos, please subscribe to my channel at YOUTUBE...... channel is ds hall
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01-14-2014, 06:47 AM #14
Bill,
I would understand that if the wall you are trying to put it in is too small. I can't tell from your pic exactly what you are doing. What happens if you just open the window's dbx and edit the size?Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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01-14-2014, 09:43 AM #15
Here is link to plan file: See highlighted door and widow. Where it says try to add window use copy of existing...
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resi...t=file%2c.planBill Lynch
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