Fitting Walls to Defined Geometry

In the Vectorworks Architect and Landmark products, standard walls and curtain walls can be set to the layer height at creation. After creation, they can be automatically extended upward or downward to fit to defining geometry such as the site model, roofs, floors, or NURBS surfaces. Selected walls are automatically associated with any roofs they intersect; see Roof and Wall Associations.

The Fit Walls to Objects dialog box opens. Specify the location of the wall object and indicate the fit parameters.

Parameter	Description
Constrain tops of selected walls to objects	Fits walls to objects at the top of the walls
Fit to objects on	Specifies the layer of the defining geometry for the tops of the walls; this geometry can consist of roofs, floors, slabs, 3D polygons, extrusions, or NURBS surfaces
Wall top embedding depth	Specifies the distance that the wall penetrates the object. This can avoid problems such as gaps; for very thick walls, a negative embedding depth may be necessary so that the wall does not protrude from the object.
Constrain bottoms of selected walls to objects	Fits walls to object at the bottom of the walls
Fit to objects on	Select the layer of the defining geometry for the bottom of the walls
Include Site Models on selected layer	Select to conform the bottom of the walls to the shape of the underlying site model
Curved wall fit interval	For curved walls, sets the increment for fitting the wall
Wall fitting reference	Select the part of the wall to fit to the constraining object (Center, Left, or Right)

Walls or portions of walls that lie outside the constraining object retain their height as set from the Object Info palette. Walls that have had peaks added (with the Reshape tool) do not have the peaks reset if the peaks lie outside the constraining object. Walls with a bottom fit to the site model retain a level top rather than a fixed height; the top of the wall does not vary with the bottom.