How do i prevent hatching from wrapping around corners on external walls in Chief

[AdamEdgar]

hi guys, 

in the following drawing, i am wanting to setup my hatching on the external wall cladding so it represents my colourbond cladding panels (which are 300mm wide incl a 10mm gap between each panel)

 

 

you will notice in the second close up image below that chief is wrapping the hatching around the corners. I dont want it to do this because it is not symmetrical 

 

I am not sure if my cladding manufacturer can change the 290mm + 10mm air gap = 300mm panel widths so i need some workarounds so that i can show a vertical corner flashing that would resolve this. 

 

I realise that i could draw it manually with cad lines + replicate (at 300mm intervals)...just wondering if there is a faster and repeatable way of doing this as we do a lot of this kind of drawing work and our traliers are not all the same lengths or widths, however the wall cladding stays the same dimensions.

 

Our aim tis to be able to quickly work out what size our vertical corners need to be and provide those drawings to our sheet metal fabricator so he can make up the corner panels. 

 

In addition to the corner panels, we also would be using the hatch pattern in Chief to work out our window locations and sizes so that they fit nicely within the factory panel joins.

 

The Second image below shows what we wish to avoid in the future

 

- note the cutouts around the windows and doors...this is a real pain to have to make up during the building process and we want to avoid that in the future by have the windows and doors align with the 10mm gaps between panels.

 

 

Melaluca 11m.plan

Edited February 10 by AdamEdgar
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[rlackore]

I think trying to define material spacing/transitions with Chief patterns is a losing proposition. When it's critical I resort to elevations and I manually draw the panels and dimension the joint locations. Or you could insist on shop drawings for review.

[AdamEdgar]

oh yeah i didnt think about doing it in elevations directly...im so used to Cheif working out elevations from plan view, that didnt even occur to me. 

 

One caveat however would be that we are using the dimensions generated in the floor plan view in order to align our intended window and door openings...so it would be helpful from a design perspective to do this first on the floor plan.

 

I suppose it would be beneficial if i outlined my workflow on this:

 

1. We draw the overall trailer external wall frame dimensioned to length and width (in the example shown its 11m by 3m)

2. Add in the manufacturers existing window and door locations and sizes from their dxf file

3. We then add our wall cladding into the drawing

4. Finally, we adjust the manufacturers door and windows locations and specs so that all vertical edges align with the air gaps in our cladding (we recenter and resize to suit our cladding)

 

 

That is why i thought this would be done in plan view?

 

Is there a way we can add a wall break on the corners so that the hatching doesnt automatically wrap around the corners? 

What if i created a kind of "ghost wall" on the outside on the existing with "no locate" switched on?

Edited February 10 by AdamEdgar

[AdamEdgar]

I wonder...what if i created a"party wall" so to speak on the outside and used the "Wall Hatching" tool for the outside wall? 

 

[AdamEdgar]

oh yeah i think even just adding a wall hatch to the standard frame wall will do the job...this allows us to alter existing window specs and locations to suit the cladding spacings.

 

The only caveat is that normally when working with an "air gap" its always length +1...so our windows would be out by 10mm (because that is the first air gap size from whichever side we start), however, we can deal with that no problem.

 

There is another problem though....the hatching doesnt appear to have any kind of predictable start finish location...i need it to centre along a wall.

Edited February 10 by AdamEdgar