topic Re: beam surface display in Modeling

beam surface display

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:27:06 GMT

Hi, i'm working on a residential Project and for some reason i can't see the steel beam's surface on any of the plans i'm working on, it appears as a wireframe, can i change this setting so that i can see the beam's surface.

I am a new user at archicad so this may be a really basic issue.

Thank you

Re: beam surface display

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:49:10 GMT

Sadly, not in plan view. For many years, this has been a much-wished-for feature.

You can fake it with a top down 3D document, but if you really need a plan view with section lines, etc., that won't really help.

Re: beam surface display

David Shorter — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 03:29:36 GMT

There is one workaround and that is to create 2 views.
The first is a 3D doc showing just the beam layer.
The second is a floor plan view.
Place and align on the layout and you have coloured beams
Hope this helps