Discover how to align architectural elements such as walls using base constraint adjustments in this detailed guide. Learn to control the height and proportions of your design elements effectively.
Key Insights
- The article explains the process of adjusting the base constraint to make architectural elements like walls align in height. This is achieved by setting the base offset from zero to negative four, which changes the proportion of the elements dramatically.
- Walls created on level one, especially those hanging over level one outline, require careful adjustments. Selecting these walls and changing their base offset helps to drop them down below, aligning them properly.
- For curtain wall pieces, an unconnected height of 10 feet is recommended. This can be achieved by setting their top offset to negative four, aligning them in line with other elements. With the proper top and base constraints, the building structure starts to come together effectively.
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Now that we have the basis for a lot of our walls built in, we're going to make a few more adjustments to align the height of all these elements. And so what I want to do is each one of these pop-outs here, these areas that are hanging over our level one outline, we're going to adjust their base constraint to drop four feet below. And because we're doing that, we're going to want to make some adjustments to the walls that we created on level one.
And so I just went through here using Control to add to my selection all of these walls that I want to have drop down below. And to do that, I'm just going to change my base offset from zero to negative four, and that's going to change that proportion pretty dramatically. And then what I'll do is I'll grab these curtain wall pieces here that I want to have stop at that same height, which is going to be an unconnected height here of 10 feet.
And to achieve that, we're going to go up to level one, which they're doing, or level two, which is what they're doing now. And we're going to set that offset to negative four. So these walls that I have selected now, they're going to drop down.
And so if I go in and I set their top offset this time to negative four, then they'll drop down and they'll be in line with this guy right here. And so when we look at our level two plan, you may have noticed this as we were creating it before; you could see the outline because those walls were actually poking up through. And so now we've got all of our walls set with the proper top and base constraints, and you can kind of see the building starting to come together a little bit here.
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Still, a lot of work to do, but we are plugging away one step at a time here.
