Use interference checking

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And this is the home studio project that we've been working on for a while

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and we're ready to issue the model to other consultants and also to the client.

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But before we do this,

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it's always a good idea to check that everything is

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in order as it's easy to miss small things,

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especially when we're changing objects in the model

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which may affect their position or location or size.

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And a good tool to use for this is the interference check in.

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So from the collaborate ribbon tab on the coordinate panel,

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we can choose the interference check

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and then to run an interference check.

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And now looking at the settings, we can see we have two lists of categories

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and they're both from the current project

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rather than just check all of the categories on both sides

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as that may lead to a very long list of interferences.

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If there are any issues, we'll be more selective.

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And I know that I've changed the wall types

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to be slightly thicker in this project recently.

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So I choose the walls and I'll check those against the stairs,

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the railings and also the furniture.

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So I'll select OK.

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And I can see that we have some interference between the

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railings and the stairs and also one piece of furniture.

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So we'll start with the furniture and we'll select show

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unless we only have the 3d view open at the moment, that doesn't show us very much.

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So we'll choose to show once more.

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And now it's just going to let us know that it needs to

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look through the project browser and open up views that are closed.

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So we'll say OK to continue.

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And it's highlighted a clash between the bed and the wall just here

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and expanding that out, we can see those two objects highlighted in,

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in the interference.

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So I'll check the rains

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and we can see that that's highlighted here. But we'll choose show

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and show once more

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until we get to the right view

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on the first floor plan. I can see that it's this wall here.

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It's also clashing with the railings.

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And as I've zoomed in, I can see also this wall too

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and then selecting the last one here, I'll choose show once more.

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We can see that that's also clashing on the second floor as well.

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So I think the issue here is that we've recently changed the thickness of the walls

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and without realizing that's just created a small clash between the railings and

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the stairs and also the bed on this side of the wall.

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So we need to decide how to resolve this,

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whether we need to modify the railings or move the position of the wall to suit.

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And in this instance, we'll move the walls and the bed to try and resolve this.

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So I'll close this down

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and from the second floor residence view, I'll choose the wall

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and then move this across by a couple of inches

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so that we clear the railings on this side.

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And then actually, I'll change the layout of the bed completely.

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So I'll spin this round using the space bar

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and we'll move it against this wall, which will be a better layout for us.

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Going down to the first floor,

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we can see that we need to move these walls too.

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So we'll select it and again, just move it across by a couple of inches

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and this one too.

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And that should clear those interferences.

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But to check, we'll go back to the collaborate ribbon tab

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and then from the coordinate panel under the

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interference check which is show last report.

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And this now lists out the interferences that we found last time.

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And at the bottom of the view here, we can choose to refresh this report

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and it will rerun this

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and those interferences have now disappeared as

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we've resolved those by moving the walls.

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So I choose close.

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And we also have a structural model that we can link into this project.

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And to do this, we'll go to the insert ribbon tab.

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And from the link panel, we choose to link rev it.

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And I choose the home studio structure project here

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and we'll position this auto by shared coordinates

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as we set those coordinates up with the structure engineer.

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And when we choose open,

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we know that this will place it in the correct location.

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So zoom in out,

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I can now see the grid from the structural model

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and also the columns

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and I'll come and look at the living room south interior elevation

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and we can see the structure in the view here as well.

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Seeing the truss supporting the roof

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zooming in, you can also see we have some structure that sits within our roof.

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And this is acceptable

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as this is a combined zone where we need to show finishes and insulation, et cetera.

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But there's also going to be structure supporting the roof in there too.

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So we'll run an interference check as we've just brought this in and this can

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help us coordinate it and make sure there

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aren't any interferences that shouldn't be there.

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So we'll go back to the collaborate ribbon tab

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and once again from the coordinate panel under interference check,

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we'll choose to run interference check.

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And this time I went to check the curtain wall in.

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So I choose the curtain panels and the curtain wall

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malls

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and we'll check this against the home studio structure project

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and we'll check it against the columns within that project

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to choose. OK. To run the report,

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we can see that there's quite a few interferences here

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and expanding some of these out,

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we can see this interference between the structural column

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and a quad

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Callum

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mallon here. So we choose this interference and choose to show

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and then we can choose to show again to cycle through the views we have open

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until we see the mullion and the column highlighted.

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And as we zoom into the 3D view here, we can see it's this corneal

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and this column when

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we create malls in rev it,

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they get split by each of the grid lines within the curtain wall.

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And hence, this vertical corner mallon is made up of many pieces.

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And that's why we're seeing so many interferences within our report here.

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So we need to resolve this. So we'll close down the interference report

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and I'll go back to the first floor plan

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and zooming into the corner.

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We can now see clearly where the column is overlapping our Mallia.

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And we need to decide how to resolve this.

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We can choose to ask the structure engineer to

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move their column slightly or maybe resize it.

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So it's a little bit smaller. If that's possible,

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we could choose to move the curtain wall to take account for the column

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or equally, we could place a slightly smaller mullion on the corner here

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which seems like the best option to resolve this issue.

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So to do this, I'll slap the curtain wall

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and then from the properties pallette, we'll choose to edit type.

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And here we can see we have the quad corner

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mullion specified in the type of curtain wall.

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So we'll change this from the seven by seven inch to the five by five inch.

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And now when we choose, OK, that mullion will be applied to our curtain wall type.

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And we can see that's now updated

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and it looks to have cleared the interference with the column

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to make sure we'll go back to the collaborate ribbon tab

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and under the coordinate panel on the interference check,

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we'll choose to show the last report again.

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And once again, we'll choose to refresh.

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We can see all of those interferences have now disappeared

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and we can be sure now that our structural model is not interfering with our

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walling at any point.