Doors disappearing in Layout

[Jan Vlach]

Hi all, I have a specific problem, or perhaps even a bug to report.


In my floorplan map I have saved a floorplan view, that contains, among other things three doors. Those three doors are assigned to a wall that has been made with custom profile. This specific profile is representing frame for Copilit/linit/Profilit wall. (the glassed part of the wall is created by placing individual collums that have a custom profile in the shape of copilit assigned to them. For this reason the bulk of the wall is just empty nothing. However the doors are happily hanging in there, no problems... yet.

Once I take this drawing and place it on layout however, all three doors disapper in the layout view. Everything else is OK, but the three doors are gone. Other doors and drawing elemnt show as they should, the problem is not in renovation status as the three doors are assigned same renovation status as avery other door sp naturally I am at withs end. Any feedback or help would be apriciated, thanks.

PS: I tried to change the wall profile so it would be filled with material but it still doesnt work.
The problem is occuring on Archicad 22 CZE, bild 4018, The project is hosted on our BimCloud Basic.

[Jan Vlach]

Hi Dkovacs, the problem was caused by doors that were placed in the special profile that, for the hight of the doors did not have any fill drawn in (see picture). What still baffles me a little is why the doors have shown in saved view and not in the layout but I came to the conclusion that the views in the layout are rendered using a slightly different technique so I guess it is not 100% WYSIWYG but only about 99%. To get around the problem I placed the doors in a wall that was just the same dimensions as the openings.

[Daniel Kovacs]

Hi,

I looked into this with one of our developers of this field. Apparently the code for displaying is slightly different for views and drawings and that is indeed the reason this happens.

The root of the problem is that because of this wall geometry there is no cut part to show of the wall in the current floor plan range (although the cut plane goes through the wall, so it expects a cut representation), but doors are made to be shown only in the cut part (as obviously in the overhead and top view walls, you should not be able to see cut doors).

The main issue here is that there is a difference between what you see on the floor plan and the Layout, so we should decide what it should look like in such situations (should you see a cut door in an overhead wall? How a wall like this should be represented? etc.), and then make them work consistently. We started this process and after finding the proper design, we will try to fix it (task #266558).

Thanks for the report and finding the reason of the issue. These reports really help a lot in cleaning out the errors of ARCHICAD.

Regards,

[Jan Vlach]

Hi DKovacs, I have not visited the forum for some time, so I missed the post I can provide the file with the custom profile if that would be of any help, If so, please PM me.

[Archlantis]

I think this issue is unresolved, I am having the same problem. The doors show up in the schedule when I format/edit it but they disappear in elevation view when I place the saved view to the sheet. The plan view of the doors are there.

[Archlantis]

I've discovered that the first column goes hidden. My workaround was to add a "custom text" field as the first column then leave it blank.