topic Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away in Project data & BIM

Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:53:27 GMT

I'm using the Interior Elevation tool to elevate a room which has a Grid Element passing through it on the floor plan. Although the grid is on A-GRID on the floor plan, it is on ArchiCAD Layer in the elevation, and I can't turn it off. I don't want to see grids in my elevations. In addition, the faded hotspots indicate that the layer is locked, but I can't unlock it. Even if I hide the grid layer in the current layer configuration, the grid still shows up in the elevation. I can't seem to get rid of it. Any ideas?

Re: Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:42:56 GMT

I'm sure you've checked to obvious, seeing if that one grid line, (or a copy of it) is really on the ArchiCad layer?

Re: Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Richard Morrison — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:04:35 GMT

Jay,
A few thoughts come to mind:
1) Are you using the latest Grid tool APX? (Check the Goodies page.)
2) You can alway use the Section/Elevation tool to generate the elevations, and that has an explicit checkbox for the grid tool.

Re: Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:12:31 GMT

Dave wrote:
I'm sure you've checked to obvious, seeing if that one grid line, (or a copy of it) is really on the ArchiCad layer?

Yup. It's on A-GRID on the floor plan, but shows up on ArchiCAD Layer in the interior elevation.

Re: Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:16:40 GMT

Richard wrote:
1) Are you using the latest Grid tool APX? (Check the Goodies page.)

Yes, I'm using the set that goes with patch 1210.

Richard wrote:
2) You can alway use the Section/Elevation tool to generate the elevations, and that has an explicit checkbox for the grid tool.

That's the way I've always done it in the past, but I thought the smaller marker of the new Interior Elevation tool would look better. Silly me! I thought it would work right out of the box!

Re: Interior Elevation Tool - Grid Won't Go Away

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:41:48 GMT

Through a complete accident, I found the answer. If I have the A-GRID layer locked and I'm viewing an Interior Elevation, ArchiCAD will show the grids on the ArchiCAD Layer layer regardless of whether A-GRID is showing or hidden. If the A-GRID layer is unlocked, it will show the grids on the A-GRID layer. So, if I want to turn off the grids in an Interior Elevation, I must hide the A-GRID layer, but not lock the A-GRID grid layer.

It's a feature, not a bug.