Learn how to adjust and align joints in 3d modeling, using tools to add and remove segments and mirror your work across different sections. Discover how to use the align tool and multiple alignment option to streamline your process, along with tips on how to perfect your design by adjusting edges and working with different wall types.
Key Insights
- The align tool and multiple alignment options can be utilized to line up joints accurately, leading to a more streamlined design process.
- Adjusting edges and working with different wall types is crucial to perfect your design and ensure correct joining at corners.
- Copying your work over from one endpoint to another can sometimes lead to pattern inconsistencies; therefore, meticulous adjustment and alignment of panels are recommended to maintain design integrity.
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And then we'll just work our way back, adjusting these joints. And so I can use the Add/Remove Segments tool to take out the segment that we don't want on the top here. So this is just one piece.
And then what I'll do is align the joint with the center of the panel and then align the joint with the bottom of the panel so that we just have the one joint in the middle, pretty much like what we had before. Now, if you're thinking like there's no way I'm going to go back and do all that, well, you really don't have to if you don't want to; you could go back into Level Two, knowing that this is the one that I've corrected here.
I could give myself an indicator of where this guy is, which is essentially at this location. And what I'll do is kind of mark both sides of it. And then I can delete that wall.
And then I can copy this one over from endpoint to the intersection where the reference plane is. And I knew that was going to be off a little bit because of the weird joint that I'm seeing with the concrete wall here. So that's why I did both of those reference planes.
And so then I can go in and adjust it and then just make sure that those are equal. And now I'm in a position where I could take that one out and mirror it across the other side, and we can do the same thing going through, or you can go back through and adjust all of those panels, but you can see even with copying it over, sometimes the pattern gets a little weird.
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And so I recommend just biting the bullet on here and making sure it looks right when you're working in 3D, and you will become very familiar with the Tab key on this one. And so what I can do here is, since we have that grid, I still want the joint at that point, but I could align the panel joint here. And then I can have the joints the way I want them at this location.
What's happening at the corner is this wall doesn't have the Edit Profile cut like the other one does, and so it's showing that little bit of wall on the edge. And so we just have to use the Edit Profile option like we did on the other ones, and then we can clip the wall to create the pocket using our Split and Trim/Extend Corner tools.
And that should help clean up that corner like you see here. And so what I'll do is go ahead and align that, and you can see that, because there are three different panels, I have to go ahead and do it to all three of those.
We don't have the panel on the bottom, and so those are our options. We could leave it as the three panels or the two panels—however we have it—align it so that the joint lines up with the volume in the center, or we can go in like I did on these two, remove it, and then align the joint; either way is going to accomplish the same thing.
And so we can do it either way. Here, I can just align the bottom on both sides of this, and what we can do to help speed that up a little bit is, using the Align tool, there's actually a Multiple Alignment option here. What that'll do is allow me to pick, say, that point, which is where I want to align everything to.
And then, using Tab, I can find my joint, and I can go through on this entire face and pick all of those panel joints to align them. That can be a pretty quick process if you're handy with the Tab key. If it's not showing what you want after hitting it a few times, you can just go back in and move the mouse around a little bit.
So here we just need to adjust this edge again, same as the other side. It's that one portion of the wall that didn't have the Edit Profile, and so it was not joining correctly at the corner.
And so I'll just do the same process that we've been doing with the Edit Profile and then use Split and Trim to close that out, and that'll give us a better joint at the corner. And then now we can just do our Multiple Alignment as we go across on the bottom, and that Multiple Alignment sticks until you turn it off, so it's not something you have to go back and keep hitting, just like the Multiple Copy—how we used that a while back—and that's still on unless you went and turned it off.
And so it's just a lot of tabs and a lot of clicking here, but it's not too bad; it could certainly be worse. If you need to do it again, you can just click into white space or you can hit Escape and that'll kick you out of the command, and there we go. We've got all of our metal panel wall set; we just need to make sure we get the rest of the EIFS panels and this one across here—that's the top of our metal panel. That one is going to be the same wall type as the one we have over here, so we might as well change that now, and it bumps out a bit, and we knew that was going to happen, but we'll have to come in and correct the rest of those items.
And so that's going to be our exterior materials for right now. Then we'll take a look at it in shaded mode and see what else needs to be corrected.
