How To Create A Sloped Wall


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Good day,

 

I've been trying to figure out how to draw a sloped exterior like shown in my attached file that can have any materials (siding, brick, stucco...).  I can't seem to find anything.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Annik Robichaud

Interior Designer / Designer Intérieure

Dieppe, NB

Canada

 

 

 link from you tube

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXBn_sxWME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Greg,

 

Chief doesn't do "Sloped Walls" but you can use a Roof Plane.  However, there's no way to insert a door or window into a Roof Plane.

Attach a pic of what you want it to look like and we can help.  Otherwise we can't help you do what you want.

 

Even better, also attach your plan.

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Is this what you are looking for?

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Note:  I did this with 3 Molding Polylines, not a Polyline Solid. 

The Molding Polylines are drawn in Plan View and each is assigned a different height and Molding Shape to fit:

   1.  Below the Window

   2.  At the Window

   3.  Above the Window

 

If you need something more complex then I would model it using Primitive Solids and the Boolean Operations.  Since I don't know exactly what the end result should be, it's difficult to give you the best possible way of doing it.

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You can put a skylight into a roof plane and make one that looks like a window.

If I wanted sloped walls I would use another app that does it with ease for a house like that.

For a simple house with a feature wall I would use Chief with work arounds as suggested by others here.

X8 might have sloped walls in it if we persuaded administration as that is a very common feature in modern Architecture these days especially in the commercial field.

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Yeah,  I had a feeling there was an issue with that.

 

I still do not know how he did what he did.

I would say that he probably used roof planes sloped the opposite direction - but in order to have the normal roof structure there would need to be invisible walls and maybe a second floor where the attic exists.

 

Another option would be to create the walls, convert them to symbols and rotate them to the desired slope - but you would still need the invisible walls and some wall editing.

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I would say that he probably used roof planes sloped the opposite direction - but in order to have the normal roof structure there would need to be invisible walls and maybe a second floor where the attic exists.

 

Another option would be to create the walls, convert them to symbols and rotate them to the desired slope - but you would still need the invisible walls and some wall editing.

You maybe correct,  it just looks like he might of done something more "magical".  It looks really good....  of course it is a RENDER VIEW,  a VECTOR VIEW may show us what he really did.

 

Hey Rich,  where the heck are you Bud,  help me out here,  am I missing something "magical" that you and Antoine have come up with?

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Hey guys, it was a late night and I burned a lot of brain cells

working on this one. Remember when Antoine stopped the

show and insisted that you try to tilt the origin logo out of 

plumb? That's basically what I did with a wall. First I just

drew a straight section of exterior wall (I chose Stucco6

because I wasn't man enough to deal with the problems

presented by horizontal siding). Then while in 3D view I

converted the wall section to a symbol. I placed a copy of

the symbol into the plan view and using the Symbol

Specification dbx I rotated the wall section symbol 5° out

of vertical/plumb. Then once again while in 3d view I

created a new symbol out of the previous symbol. I now

have a symbol of a section of battered wall that is tilting 

out 5° at the top. That was the easy part. Then I put a

copy of the tilted wall symbol into a fresh plan view and

tried to coerce it into behaving enough to get the results

you see. As you all have correctly surmised there are

some interesting issues to be dealt with not the least of

which is the fact that regular walls don't recognize and

interact with symbols of walls. I placed invisible walls on

top of the battered wall symbols to form a room but then

the floor and subfloor of the room wanted to extend out

beyond the bottom of the walls to be in line with the ceiling.

Rather than mess around with that I just removed the floor

and used a Polyline Solid for the floor. As Perry pointed

out putting openings into the wall symbols turns out to be

a bit more problematic. I was hoping somebody might

have a solution for that. The wall symbol won't accept

doors or windows and it doesn't show up at all in framing.

Plan B is to try putting the openings into the wall section

before turning it into a symbol and see how that responds

but I haven't had a chance to play around with that. This

was a banzai attack with no turning back to get these

results. When I regain my strength I will try to refine the

approach. Attached is an Interior vector view. All in all it's

pretty clean. Moldings are another thing that don't respond

to symbols of walls but I didn't want to take the time to do

them manually. I guess the $64,000 question is can a wall

symbol be made to act like an actual wall with all it's

attributes? 

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Wow so I hope that this will become more easy with time.  We have a few drawings with that sloped walls that my boss wants to be able to do.

 

Joe did you have a chance to resend me that file with the sloped that you did.  You had ask what version of chief that I had and it's X6

 

Thanks

 

Annik

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