Place Walls Command - Intergraph Smart 3D - Help

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 Places curved and straight walls in the model. Use this command to place parapets, retaining walls, bearing walls, nonbearing walls, and foundation walls. Like slabs, you can cut openings in walls using the Place Opening. You can use the Place Equipment Command to place doors and windows in walls.

The software places walls on a supporting plane that you select. The supporting plane of the wall can be an elevation plane, a grid plane, or a plane that you define during placement.

When placing walls, you define a path that the wall is to follow. You can define this path in the 3-D environment using the same path commands that you use to define handrails paths, or you can define this path in the 2-D environment using lines connected and grouped together to define the path. When you need to modify the walls that you have placed, keep these things in mind:

  • All walls paths created in the 2-D environment should be modified in the 2-D environment unless you are modifying the entire area with a rotate or move, in which case you should do the modification in the 3-D environment. For example, you placed a wall using a 2-D drawn path. To move, rotate, or add on to that individual wall, you would go back to the 2-D environment. However, if you were going to rotate the wall along with everything else in the general area, you would do the rotate all the objects in the 3-D environment. 

  • When moving or rotating a wall path in the 2-D environment, you might have to delete some constraints before you can move or rotate. You need to display the relationships layer to delete them if needed.

  • When a 2-D sketched wall is selected in the 3-D environment, all the other walls that were created during that same 2-D session are also selected. If you move or rotate one wall, all the walls from the session will move or rotate also. To move or rotate an individual wall, you need to either place each wall individually in the 2-D environment (coming back out to the 3-D environment using Finish) or you need to go into the 2-D environment and perform the move or rotate on the individual wall in the 2-D environment.

  • When sketching a wall that closes upon itself, you must make sure that the start and end points are either coincident or are no closer than 1 cm + 0.05 ยด total thickness of the wall + 0.2 meters.

    SP3D STRUCT Wall Start and End Points Min Distance CONCEPTSP3D STRUCT Wall Start and End Points External Wall RunSP3D STRUCT Wall Start and End Points Interior Wall Run

    If the start and end points are aligned on the same parallel vector, then the minimum distance is 1 cm.

    SP3D STRUCT Wall Start and End Points Parallel Vector Minimum CONCEPT

  • If you import grid lines into the 2-D environment as references and then sketch a wall path on top of the grid lines, the software will create horizontal or vertical constraints to the grid lines.

You can select multiple wall parts or wall systems as a group and edit properties either in the ribbon bar or in the property pages. The limitations when editing multiple walls are that you cannot modify support, path or boundaries values. 

Place Wall Ribbon

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