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Questioning the logic of the program

Anonymous
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I have been using ArchiCAD for a little over a year now and I am still finding new frustrations everyday as I work. Many of these issues have been resolved by patiently understanding the peculiar process as to correctly draft and model in the program. One issue that seems to be recurring is the general logic as to how the program represents the user's drafting requests. In particular, I find frustration that a program made to accurately portray the actual details of construction down to the sixteenth of an inch on window trim, seems to be completely bamboozled when it comes to something as pedantic as joining walls together in plan. If I want to accurately represent my framing in plan, then why does ArchiCAD insist that there should be a layer of gyp. that runs inside my wall cavity?



I understand that there are all sorts of tricks, work arounds, techniques, proper drafting/modeling standards and parameters that can sort out all sorts of messes. But my questions is why? Why can't there be a straightforward solution to such a simple problem? This is the issue I keep running into, there are no simple solutions. Please help.
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If the walls your showing are in fact the same identical kind of wall then they would clean up. There must be some difference. Are they on the same layer with the same cleanup priority numbers ? Perhaps you are running into this problem because you are unaware of the different places where this is setup and controlled ?

What version of ArchiCAD are you using ?

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Anonymous
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I am running ArchiCAD 16

As far as I can tell these two walls are identical.

Same Layer
Same Composite
Same parameters (height, materials, pen types, etc.)
Considering I made one after another, I would assume that they are exactly the same.

If it helps at all, this is a consistent problem. When the model view is set to display wall composite information, then the relationship between the framing lines gets all screwy.
Erich
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Show us the Composite Structures dialog for this wall type. You most likely have your priorities set wrong.
Erich

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Anonymous
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This is an incredibly simple fix. Please go into the composite of the wall and send a screenshot. It seems like the GWB fill and the wall stud fill are the same priority. The wall stud fill should have a higher priority.
Anonymous
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in the wall composite the priority for the GWB fill is set to 6
The stud wall file is set to 8

Just for giggles I upped the stud wall to 10

no change
Anonymous
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Is the "enable skin priorities" button in the wall settings dialog box checked?
Anonymous
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Button not checked....
Anonymous
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Button checked....
Anonymous
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Did that work?