Join Linear Component with Line

Module(s): Basic: Walls, Openings, Components + Special: Walls, Openings, Components

You can use the Join Linear Component with Line tool to join linear components (e.g. walls, beams, upstands, strip foundations) with lines (or their virtual extensions) in plan view. The components are shortened or lengthened as appropriate; the lines do not change.

To join a linear component with a line

1. Click Join Linear Component with Line (How).
   

   Activate Join Linear Component with Line in one of the following ways

   • Menu bar: Modify Architecture General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   • Palette: Tools Modify area in the following module(s):

   General: Roofs, Planes, Sections

   Basic: Walls, Openings, Components

   Special: Walls, Openings, Components

   • Configuration: Architecture Architectural Components flyout
2. Click the linear component you want to join with a line.
   In the Input options, click By Layer to join walls with multiple construction layers by using a layer-by-layer approach.
3. To join the selected component with the line, do the following:
   • Click the line (Allplan will join the linear component seamlessly.).
   • Enter a joint width in the dialog line, then click the line.

     

     Click the component you want to join
     1 Click the linear component you want to modify
     2 Click line with which to join component
     Click line with which you want to join the component you have clicked first
     A Without joint
     B With joint as a component
     C Joint width

     Tip: The line can be a 2D line as well as a 3D line or edge.

     

     1 Click the linear component you want to modify
     2 Click the edge of a 3D object
     with which you want to join the component you have clicked first
     A The linear component is joined with the edge of the 3D object.