Now, if I were to move this way out – you know, anywhere clear of the other wall, then of course you know that there would be a line, but this distance could be very small. I’ll go back to the upper floor here, and we’ll just move the wall. So, they have to meet at exactly the same level in order for ARCHICAD to say, “Well, you know, really, there shouldn’t be a line in between them.” Now, let’s take a look at some other things that can cause a problem on this. Let me take it down to 8’-11”, so it will go just a little lower, and you can see again that there’s a line because these two walls now protrude through each other. On the other hand, sometimes we have it going the other way. This is going to be a whole inch, but obviously we’re going to see a line where there’s this gap. Now, it could be just a fraction of an inch. For example, if I zoom in on this, and I change this from 9’, let’s say, to 9’-1”.
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Now, another possibility that would cause this type of a line would be if these gap. In fact, actually, in an elevation, you wouldn’t see any colors at all, but we will see a line where the material changes, so let me undo that. We might not even see it visually as a different color on screen. For example, let me change the material on this to a different color here. For example, if this wall here has a different material than the lower wall, there will be a line showing. Now, there are some rules that you need to be aware of. ARCHICAD, of course, is smart enough to remove the line when two elements like this are stacked cleanly on top of each other. You can see it goes down to the line that I’m pointing at, and if I select the lower wall, you can see it goes up to that same edge, and when I deselect them, there’s no line in between. Let’s take a look at some of the things that make a good clean result and then some things that add the extra detail. There’s actually no linework that’s being done. It’s got actually a fair amount of detail. You can see that the elevation looks pretty good. Let’s take a look at the elevation that looks from above, from the north position here. Now, here we have the ground floor of the building that I often use for demonstrations. Hello, this is Eric Bobrow, and in this lesson, we’ll look at how you can model so well in 3D that you have very little work to do in 2D to create your construction documents.
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