topic Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display in Modeling

Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:46:20 GMT

Hello everybody,

While playing with the "Partial Structure Display" option in AC12, I faced the following problem:
I drew a slab having a simple fill as a cut fill (no composite); I applied 3 different materials for top, sides and bottom. If "Partial Structure Display" is set to ""Core Only" or "Without Finishes", all the faces of the slab get the "side material" (please see the attached image). Is there a way I can get all 3 materials to show ?

Thank you in advance,
Adrian Tudoreanu

Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Erika Epstein — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:06:57 GMT

What you are asking is counter to the "Core only" setting. With Core only you are telling it no finishes.

Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:10:29 GMT

Erika wrote:
What you are asking is counter to the "Core only" setting. With Core only you are telling it no finishes.

I understand what you mean. The thing is I thought that if i assigned a simple cut fill (not a composite) to my slab (hence no core or finish defined), Partial Structure Display would ignore the slab, thus making it show all 3 materials.

Thank you for your reply,
Adrian

Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Erika Epstein — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:14:50 GMT

The 'core' is the structure, so does not and should not include the finish.

Thinking about the structure, it tends to be of one material e.g. wood or metal. That material is seen in the section, but often is covered up by floor or ceiling materials.

Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:58:42 GMT

Erika wrote:
The 'core' is the structure, so does not and should not include the finish.

Yes, I am aware of that. My thoughts were just about the fact that Partial Structure Display is (or isn't) recognizing cut fills not being defined beforehand as core, finish or none (like the skins of composites). I think it's clear now.

Thank you again for your support,
Adrian

Re: Slabs and Partial Structure Display

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:04:51 GMT

This is actually rather curious. I gather that AC is automatically designating the simple fill as core for purposes of the core only setting. I imagine it must do the same for walls and roofs. It is probably just an artifact of how they've implemented the core only function, but it suggests a bit of unification between simple and composite structures that is intriguing.