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ARTICLES : SoftPlan : Walls Last Updated: Oct 29th, 2004 - 03:55:13


Short Walls
By Art Schregardus
Nov 6, 2000

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John Hyland: I was wondering how you all treated a situation like this.



I want that small 3" section of brick not to show. I can set the tolerance down and place a non brick wall in the space but it wreaks havoc with lots of other wall intersections.

Art: Well John..........
The easiest way is to just draw a line (fat line, my color here is blue, buy you might want to use the color of your walls IF you're printing out in color (if printing black only, the color doesn't make any difference)).

My sample of before and after:



If you want to show the open space, again cheat by pulling the horizontal wall back from the corner, then drawing a line, a fat line, 6" fat (or the thickness of your wall), color depending on what you want to plot out as above (color or black) to see this:



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