topic Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above? in Modeling

items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:09:32 GMT

I have columns on my ground floor plan and they are showing up on my floor plan above. I have set the columns to 'show on home story only' and checked all story settings to ensure they stop at floor levels. How do I get the columns to not show up on my story above?

Thanks

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:51:22 GMT

Have you checked that your Trace & Reference is turned off?
To test make one of you columns 12" high and if it still shows on the floor above then I would be thinking it is the T & R.

Barry.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:23:31 GMT

Thanks for the reply Barry,

Yes I tried trace ref on and off, no difference. I tried changing the height of the column and if it is under 4' it does not show up on either plan as the cut level for ground floor is 4'. But 4' or above for height shows up on both stories. Very weird. It does not show up on the 2nd story (which is 3 - ground, 1st, & 2nd). Seems like a 'glitch' or I am missing something?

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

shtarkel — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:33:47 GMT

Make a screen shot so we can see what you see and give us the propertis of this mysterious column

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:53:21 GMT

I added some walls on the ground floor and they do not show up on 1st floor, so it must be something with the columns i am guessing?

I tried to add some images, but it will not let me... so frustrating. I made the images super small (200kb) and just tried to post one (which doesn't capture all the parameters) and it still won't let me post it... If I reduce it down to 15kb an it is completely blurred out... useless.
Thanks for any help!

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Barry Kelly — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:40:00 GMT

What version of Archicad are you using?

Save your screen captures as JPG or PNG files.
They should be small enough to attach.

Show an image of your column settings and another of your storey settings.

Barry.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:30:45 GMT

The Floor Plan Cut Plane Settings may also influence this. See attached image.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:27:47 GMT

Thanks for the replies.

I have tried to adjust the floor plan cut settings with no results. I think they are all currently set correct, especially since the walls below do not show, just the plain square 8"x8" columns. I have tried adjusting column heights and nothing makes a difference. I am on AC 18.

And, Laszlonagy how did you get the image to attach? I have tried over and over to attach a screen shot. I saved as .jpg on photoshop as the absolute smallest file it would do - 162kb and it still would not attach? When saved as a .png it was a much larger file.

Thanks,

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:34:39 GMT

As far as I can see the default attachment size is limited to 512 kB. But maybe the dimensions (horizontal/vertical pixels) of your attachment are too large.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:43:28 GMT

Hmmm, the .jpg is 1932x1080 pixels... not sure what the limit is? I just printed it to .pdf set up for 8x11... see if this works.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:47:32 GMT

Floor plans as .pdf - you can see the columns showing up on the first floor plan - even under the floor slab, which they do not go through. Their height is lower than the first floor level. I have even tried making their height really low and they still show up...?

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:06:16 GMT

I suppose that you switch from one Story to another by activating a saved View.
If this is the case, check the setting of the View "1. 1st Floor". Maybe one of its settings is causing this.
If you cut a Column from Story -1 then immediately paste it back, does it make any difference on how it is displayed on the upper Story?

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:32:15 GMT

I am not sure what you mean by 'saved view'. I use both floor levels from both view map and project map with the same results. Interestingly, if I cut a column from the ground floor and paste on the first floor - it now shows up on the second floor. Clearly there is something about the columns causing them to show up on the floor above - even though all the settings I can find are directing them not to do so. I paste it back to the ground floor and results are still the same. Puzzling...

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

shtarkel — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:28:13 GMT

Give us a screen shot of story settings and a section trough the columns or upload somewhere the .PLA file so we can play with it

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

David Maudlin — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:13:41 GMT

Dogwood:

I cannot reproduce your problem, but I would try changing the Floor Plan Display from Cut Only to Symbolic Cut (which ignores the Floor Plan Cut Plane).

David

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:40:37 GMT

Thanks David,

I tried changing the columns to 'symbolic cut', but still have the same issue. Also tried restarting the computer and redoing the columns with different parameters - still show up on the floor above...???

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:45:16 GMT

Shtarkel, how do I upload a .pla (.pln?) file?

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

shtarkel — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:02:45 GMT

Upload the PLA file here - https://mega.co.nz/ so we can see in details and experiment.

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:20:21 GMT

https://mega.co.nz/#!TBVSSYJJ!o_rojkEI68hI_9eYGryTshp1UtNELpojY0wwCQrZ7Uk

hope i did this right... file uploaded w/ link to it above...?

Re: items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Erwin Edel — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:50:08 GMT

Select all your columns and on Floor Plan and Section button pick "show on relevant stories" to fix the odd bug of them displaying on the wrong story.