topic Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan in Libraries & objects

Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:15:29 GMT

Hi ARCHICAD wizards,

I have a highlight window with sill height at 1900mm AFFL. The plan cut view is 1150mm AFFL default. The window settings is set to Projected with Overhead. My understand of this based on the Graphisoft help is that this would mean that this window would display with the "Overhead Lines" settings if it sits above the cut plane.

However, for the life of me I cannot get the window to show up with this Floor Plan Display setting.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Thank you,
Ben

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2017 02:04:42 GMT

I dont use the floor plan cut plans very often, but i had the same problem recently. I set the floor plan cutting plane on the wall & that did the trick.

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2017 02:43:53 GMT

Hi Rogerdodge

Thanks for the reply. I'm not following what you mean by "set the floor plan cutting plane on the wall" - can you clarify please?

Thanks,
Ben

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 May 2017 03:56:14 GMT

benjamin_chan wrote:
Hi Rogerdodge

Thanks for the reply. I'm not following what you mean by "set the floor plan cutting plane on the wall" - can you clarify please?

Thanks,
Ben

I am sure Rogerdodge means to set the floor plan display of the wall just as you did for the window.
If it remains 'Symbolic' then the settings you make to the window will seem to have no effect.

Barry.

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2017 04:43:04 GMT

Yes thats about what I meant.
While we are on the subject Barry, there is a good visual aid that explains the floor plan cut settings really well, but i cannot find it, do you know where it is?

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 May 2017 05:34:00 GMT

Rogerdodge wrote:
Yes thats about what I meant.
While we are on the subject Barry, there is a good visual aid that explains the floor plan cut settings really well, but i cannot find it, do you know where it is?

Was it the chart Laszlo did for this post?

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=47031

Barry.

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2017 06:40:23 GMT

Thats the one, thanks Barry, I had been searching high & low for that.
In all the wrong places though

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2017 01:19:21 GMT

Barry wrote:
benjamin_chan wrote:
Hi Rogerdodge

Thanks for the reply. I'm not following what you mean by "set the floor plan cutting plane on the wall" - can you clarify please?

Thanks,
Ben
I am sure Rogerdodge means to set the floor plan display of the wall just as you did for the window.
If it remains 'Symbolic' then the settings you make to the window will seem to have no effect.

Barry.

Sorry....still not following....what Floor Plan Display of the wall are you suggesting I set it to?

I guess what I'm wondering is whether ARCHICAD would be able to display the window that sits above the floor plan cut plane (1150mm AFFL) automatically with its overhead line settings - which I thought that "Projected with Overhead" would do?

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 May 2017 01:58:16 GMT

Not sure if this will help at all.
Seems you have to have a "projected with overhead" wall, with an "overhead all" window and then in the window settings override the object line types.

Barry.

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2017 05:01:03 GMT

Barry wrote:
Not sure if this will help at all.
Seems you have to have a "projected with overhead" wall, with an "overhead all" window and then in the window settings override the object line types.

Barry.

Hi Barry

Thanks very much for this - yes that's the conclusion I came away with.
The issue being is that if I move the window vertically down so that it becomes "cut" by the floor plan cut plane, then I have to remember to turn off the "overhead all" setting as well to get it reading correctly.

Ben

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 May 2017 05:13:04 GMT

I just leave the walls and windows as 'Symbolic' so no matter what the window height is I see it as I want the 2D symbol to be, and if I ever need to I just override the object line type and pen colour.

Barry.

Re: Projected with Overhead window not showing in plan

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2017 11:31:52 GMT

Barry wrote:
I just leave the walls and windows as 'Symbolic' so no matter what the window height is I see it as I want the 2D symbol to be, and if I ever need to I just override the object line type and pen colour.

Barry.

Thanks Barry. It seems it's definitely something for the "wish list" - for ARCHICAD to be able to show an object with its "overhead" line settings if the entire object sits above the floor plan cut plane, and if the window is then moved down so it's being cut by the floor plan cut plane, the window automatically shows with its "cut" line settings.