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Column displaying different in plan view and when placed on drawing

Rick Thompson
Expert

You can see in the screen shots that on the left I am able to show the Sona Tube as white circle with the 8x8 post on top, and all on the footing properly.  That's what I want, but when I place that same saved View on a sheet the round Sona trube columns goes to concrete, or looses it's fill.  I am overriding cover fill with 100% and white.  Whatever I change it to (say red), but nothing on the placed view??? This is the Column tool.  Bug or me missing something?

 

Thanks

 

Screenshot 2023-06-29 at 3.58.33 PM.png

Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display
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So...Indeed the logic of the drawing should have been to follow the saved view.

I' ve seen that you are not saving a view but instead you are placing the floor plan on a layout.

So I saved a view and placed it on a layout and indeed the column changed to just the contour. I do no know why this is happening. Maybe it is  a setting or a logic....or bug...? 

I any case:

I see that all the columns are set to "symbolic cut " instead of "projected" , which might be wrong for the foundation plan, so if you change the floor plan display of the columns then they will show as they should be.  Just check the cut level plane height and set accordingly all your elements.

 

Screenshot 2023-07-06 120947.jpg

This is a screenshot from the layout.

Botonis Botonakis
Civil Engineer, Enviromental Design MSc., BIM Manager for BS ArhitectsVR
Company or personal website
Archicad 27. Windows 11. Intel Xeon 2699x2,64 GB RAM, Nvidia 3080Ti. 2 Monitors.

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I find when you get discrepancies between the floor plan view and the view placed on a layout, open and repair seems to fix it. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 28 Apple Silicon 27.3 | 28 Apple Silicon
macOS Sequoia (15.1.1)
Rick Thompson
Expert

Thanks for the feedback, but unfortunately that didn't help.

 

Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display

You haven’t got a different pen set selected for the view placed on the layout have you? Although unlikely. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 28 Apple Silicon 27.3 | 28 Apple Silicon
macOS Sequoia (15.1.1)

Thanks for the suggestion, but they are set the same.. 

Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display

Have you tried deleting the view and recreating it? I’ve had an ongoing issue with fill area text not displaying on views that are clearly visible on the model view. I’ve never got to the bottom of it although deleting and recreating the views fixed it partly. 

Lee Hankins
ArchiCAD 4.5 - Archicad 28 Apple Silicon 27.3 | 28 Apple Silicon
macOS Sequoia (15.1.1)
Botonis
Advisor

Can you upload a pln with just this column and the problematic view and layout saved? Really want to test it. Or pm. 

Botonis Botonakis
Civil Engineer, Enviromental Design MSc., BIM Manager for BS ArhitectsVR
Company or personal website
Archicad 27. Windows 11. Intel Xeon 2699x2,64 GB RAM, Nvidia 3080Ti. 2 Monitors.

That didn't change anything.. o'well  Thanks

 

Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display
Solution

So...Indeed the logic of the drawing should have been to follow the saved view.

I' ve seen that you are not saving a view but instead you are placing the floor plan on a layout.

So I saved a view and placed it on a layout and indeed the column changed to just the contour. I do no know why this is happening. Maybe it is  a setting or a logic....or bug...? 

I any case:

I see that all the columns are set to "symbolic cut " instead of "projected" , which might be wrong for the foundation plan, so if you change the floor plan display of the columns then they will show as they should be.  Just check the cut level plane height and set accordingly all your elements.

 

Screenshot 2023-07-06 120947.jpg

This is a screenshot from the layout.

Botonis Botonakis
Civil Engineer, Enviromental Design MSc., BIM Manager for BS ArhitectsVR
Company or personal website
Archicad 27. Windows 11. Intel Xeon 2699x2,64 GB RAM, Nvidia 3080Ti. 2 Monitors.

Thanks for checking it out.  It should have been a saved view?? Maybe when I stripped the pln to decrease size I did something. Thanks for the help

Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display