Discover how to effectively design multi-level walls in a building structure, using a roof plan as a foundation. This article provides step-by-step instructions and insights on implementing design principles for wall construction above a pop-out.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of setting an underlay to visualize the positioning of walls below the roof level, aiding in the accurate design of walls above a building pop out.
- Using the 'generic eight inch finish face interior' setting, the author recommends setting the top constraint to the 'top of parapet' and the base constraint to 'roof' for consistent results.
- The author demonstrates the practical application of the mirror tool and the trim extend to corner tool for effective design configuration and alignment of walls. Adjustment and flexibility are key components in the design process.
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For the last part of our level two walls, we're going to fill in this gap with our wall that's going to be above this pop-out here, and I'm going to draw that from our roof plan. So I can go to the roof level, and you can see we don't have an underlay on here, so it's kind of hard to see what's going on, but for the purposes of this exercise, we can go ahead and turn it on, and I can say Level Two, and you can see it'll pop in where those walls are below, and now we can see it a little bit more clearly. And so what I'll do is I want to use this line as kind of our baseline here, and so I could draw a couple walls in, so I can use the same setup we've been using before with it, the generic eight-inch Finish Face Interior, and then our top is going to be Top of Parapet, and then our base constraint is going to be Roof.
And so I want the wall to be one-foot away from this wall, and then aligning on this side, and then we'll have the same relationship going up the corner here. And so what I'll do is I'm actually not going to draw this wall in. I'm going to use the mirror tool to locate it, but the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to align these two like this, and then I'm going to make sure that we have a one-foot offset at this point here, and we got pretty close.
So with these two set, because I aligned them across at this point, I can take this wall and use the mirror, by using the Draw Axis option, not the Pick Axis option, and I can go ahead and draw my 45-degree line here, which will be my mirror axis, and then it'll mirror it across, and I can use my Trim/Extend to Corner tool to close it out. This wall isn't going to go that far; it's going to stop back at this point here.
And again, that's a pretty flexible point that we're going to be adjusting as we go through. Same with this one here. I can just go ahead and move it, say, to that point just to get it closed off there.
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Now, if I go to the 3D view, you can see we'll have this wall above here that is then going to have a roof over the top right here, and then we'll have our full roof over the top of the entire building at this location.
