topic Re: Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other in Modeling

Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other

JKL — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:18:58 GMT

I am building a fireplace

Hearth/exterior is brick

Walls above are brick to mantle height

Walls above that are siding

Using composite walls w/a fill over the stud/interior gyp to construct on the floor plan, these are all shown on the same cut plane.

So I've got 3 sets of walls. They are layered correctly for "send to back"/"bring to front". When a lower wall is creating a connection below, it is obscuring the walls above it. In the attached images I'm moving a wall below.

I have no idea how to fix this. The only solution I have found is to have the lower wall not connect, however then it is not drawn correctly and the elevations are incorrect. So without manually updating views and changing these walls every time I need to update something-this fix won't work.

Any ideas?!?!?!

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

Re: Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other

Barry Kelly — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:31:16 GMT

Maybe create one complex profile wall instead of stacking walls on top of each other.

If you do stack walls, ensure the top/bottom heights do not overlap each other.

If they do they will start to trim each other.

Or consider placing walls in separate layers so you can control when they intersect with the layer intersection group numbers.

Barry.

Re: Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other

JKL — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:12:41 GMT

They aren't overlapping on height-I don't know why they are messing with each other!

The layers and new composite wall are interesting ideas, and would work well I'm assuming. I ended up changing the display of the lower walls to "symbolic cut" and they showed correctly.

Not sure that it was the correct thing to do-but it worked at least!

Re: Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other

Barry Kelly — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:42:12 GMT

I set all of my walls to be 'Symbolic' unless I need to to display otherwise.

That way I always see the wall as I expect it to show.

When a wall is not 'Symbolic; it will display in relation to the Floor Plan Cut Plane, or you have to force it to display as 'cut' or 'overhead'.

You may nor always want a wall to display as it is cut at the FPCP height.

And you can't work with different FPCP heights across the plan.

With a 'Symbolic' wall you will see it as intended, and then you can set is as 'cut' or 'overhead' if you need to.

Barry.

Re: Stacked composite walls obscuring view of each other

JKL — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:45:34 GMT

You have solved so many of my problems! Thank you for that explanation!