Friday, March 31, 2017

Edit Profile and Altering Base or Top Constraints

In this example I've got a veneer wall and I used the Edit Profile feature to alter its shape. I wanted it to go from the bottom of the building to the top but provide the overall opening it requires in the middle. As luck would have it the overall height has changed a little. The selected wall in the following image is one of several veneer wall segments. It needs to drop down by 6 inches.


All I need to do is edit the Top Offset parameter, changing it from 3'-6" to 3'-0". That was easy.


Unfortunately when I do that easy bit I notice the opening I created using Edit Profile has shifted down by the same 6 inches.


At this point I'd use Edit Profile and move that sketch segment back up to the proper location. Since I have several of these veneer walls to adjust; for one of them I accidentally used Edit Profile first. I decided to change the Top Offset parameter while I was there, noting that the sketch is still correct at the top of the window assembly.


When I finished Edit Profile I was pleasantly surprised to find that the sketch remained intact, the opening did not need to be altered. The Top Offset alteration took effect without changing the interior rectangle sketch like would have happened changing the parameter outside of the Edit Profile mode.


That was a pleasant thing to stumble into. For the remaining walls I just used Edit Profile first and changed the Top Offset parameter followed by finishing Edit Profile without having to adjust the sketch too.

2 comments:

Nicholas Voell-White said...

Silly question, would the use of wall openings instead of edit profile have worked better in this scenario?

Anonymous said...

You can put some dimensions on editing profile mode and your opening will stay