5 replies to this topic

[Steven Watchorn]

How would you recommend I step the top of a wall?

 

I am working on a plan where the second floor extends out of the garage.  I have determined the appropriate wall height to support the open web floor trusses for this area of the second floor.  However, I would like to make the walls taller in the remaining part of the garage that does not have a floor system above it.  Of course I have adjusted all of my remaining walls to their new height.  The problem arises over top of one of my overhead garage doors.  The stepped top of wall has to happen over the middle of my overhead door opening, when you split a wall to have multiple heights, it essentially creates multiple walls.  However, an opening cannot span between to different wall sections.  One work around would be to draw a second shorter wall over top of the door that starts at the top elevation of my shorter garage walls to create a step in this area, is there a cleaner way that anyone else can recommend?

 

Thanks.

[Thomas Davis]

that is how I would do it. Make the lower wall continuous for your garage door opening and a shorter height and then add a two short walls stacked on top of that one that can be different heights, breaking in the center of the opening below.

[Heath Foster]

That is the easiest way I know of to do it. A more complicated but perhaps more accurate way if that matters would be to use ceilings at the correct heights to make the the shape you want then do fit to ceiling. As a side note it would be great if when we designate a wall as sloped we had more control. Right now it only lets you edit each end. It would be nice to be able to say how many edit points we wanted on a sloped wall.

[Keith Almond]

...  would be nice to be able to say how many edit points we wanted on a sloped wall ...

 

and where they are horizontally ...

[Kevin Rabenaldt]

Or fill out a table.  Or draw your individual walls the length and height you want (could use dimensions to get precision), then have a command (we don't) that would join your walls into one.

[Steven Watchorn]

Thanks for the replies everyone.