topic Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills in Documentation

Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 18:35:48 GMT

All my elevations, sections and wall sections suddenly changed into 2D lines and Fills. I don't know what I did wrong and why this happened.

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:26:21 GMT

I suppose somehow this got changed in your elevation and section view definitions (sorry, my Archicad is in Spanish, I hope you got where this is located)

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 23:34:07 GMT

Thanks Jp1138, but unfortunately (for me) the status mode is kind of greenish. I can change it. I'm not even Know haw that happened. BTW. I speak Spanish too.

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 11:21:13 GMT

I think your problem is here:

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 22:53:16 GMT

Thanks again Jp1138, you're almost there. I change everything as you direct me but now I can't hit ok. I'm desperate. I'm loosing a lot of work. elevations, sections and wall sections.

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

DGSketcher — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 07:59:56 GMT

The OK button is usually greyed out when the element you are editing is on a locked layer.

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:40:39 GMT

I think, as DGSketcher said, that the layer is blocked: you can see it´s in italics in your screenshot:

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:39:13 GMT

Thanks Jp1138 and DGSketcher you have been very helpful. I've done everything you guys have told me to do but the elevations and sections didn't change to their original 3D state. I decided re do them all over again but I don't want to repeat the same mistakes. How should I accomplish this task without the fear that it will happen again?

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:56:46 GMT

There must be a simple way to fix things that we are missing. Couldn´t you upload a partial file with the problem for us to look at it?

Without knowing what´s causing the problem, it´s difficult to guess how to prevent it. Check the default options your elevation and section tools, because they retain the configuration of the last time they were used, and if the problem is there, it would propagate to the new ones you make. But as you say everything works with your new ones, I suppose that isn´t the problem.

If you have elevations that work and ones that don´t, you could try to tranfer the properties of the former to the later...

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:08:10 GMT

Hi Jp1138. The problem persists with the new ones too. When I did them the firs time they came out perfectly well. I added them to layouts and everything was good. I just changed the names and suddenly this thing happened.

How can I partially upload a file.

And, thanks again for your help.

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:58:13 GMT

You can attach a file that is less than 5mb to the forum just dragging to a message. If it´s bigger, just upload it somewhere (dropbox, mega, drive...) and share the link.

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:18:19 GMT

There you go. Here is the file. Thanks

ACHICAD FILE

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 02:22:13 GMT

Hi Jp1138. I just noticed that you haven’t downloaded the files that I sent through WETRANSFER. Is there a problem with Wetransfer? Do you prefer I send it through other service? Please let me know. Thanks

Edwin Monserratte

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 07:49:37 GMT

Hello. Yes, I downloaded the files yesterday, but haven´t been able to take a look yet, as I´ve been out of the office most of the day 😅

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Jp1138 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:12:30 GMT

Well, sorry for the delay, it´s been a crazy week.

It seems many of your sections and elevations are made as independent views.

This views don´t generate from the model, they are just a drawing you make and can be referenced to this position in the model.

https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/user-guide/137234/#XREF_40192_Create_an

As these sections are not generated from the model, any changes you make would not propagate to the section.

Maybe the last section you draw was a independent section and selecting the tool is taking the previuos configuration.

If you want to have a live section, be sure to select a section source maker, not a independent view section.

Your independent views cannot be made a live section again, but you can make a new section in the same position and copy and paste your drawn lines on top of the live section, so you can keep the elements you need that are ot on the model. Here I pasted your section WS01 besides a new real live section on the left.

I don´t know if all I´m saying is obviuos and the probem you are having is somewhere else.

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Edmon — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:23:25 GMT

Hi Jp1138. Thanks for your help and patience to go over my project. I think so too, some how I change the settings. When I noticed it, it was already late. I started doing them again coping and pasting the notes as you say. Some of them didn't come when pasting them since they are attributes of some of the member (wall, slab, etc.) but they are the least.

Thanks

Edmon

Archicad 25

MacBook Pro 2018

macOS Monterey 12.2.1

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:22:53 GMT

If you have an Independent Section Viewpoint, then you can place a linked Marker, select it to link to the Independent Section, click OK to accept changes, then go back to the Dialog and change the Marker to a Source Marker. Then you will have a Section Viewpoint that generates 3D and can be updated when the model changes.

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Elena 99 — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:13:38 GMT

i'm having the same issue, but the steps given are not working for me, could you please assist me, by looking at my Archicad model file. thanks

Re: Elevations and sections turned into 2D Lines and fills

Barry Kelly — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 01:04:00 GMT

I don't see anything wrong with your sections or elevations.

Apart from the fact they do not surround your model so they are really not looking at anything.

They are all 'Auto-rebuild' and not 'Independent' which was the issue here.

However I am having trouble with your site mesh.

It has 139 Solid Element Operations which are taking a very long tome to calculate.

So it takes a very long time to generate in 3D or the west elevation (that has to distance limit so can see your model).

If all you need is the hole in the mesh, then cancel all of the SEOs and just cut a simple hole the shape of your building.

If you do need the SEO the maybe don't select everything and subtract.

Just select those elements that will cut the mesh.

If you want to carry on with more questions then please make a new topic, as this seems to have nothing to do with elevation settings.

Barry.