Graphic Override for Beams

[VivSta]

Hello! I am working on ceiling plans and trying to use a GO (grey fill) for the ceiling beams. I noticed that the GO I created only works with the beam that is set in an elevation below the cut plane and not the one above that. I played with changing the home story, however that doesn't make any change. Any ideas how to make the GO apply to the second beam displayed on my attached screenshot? Thanks in advance!

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

In addition to what @Barry Kelly & @Lingwisyer suggested you may try to create a new storey for ceiling level and set walls to be shown in All relevant Floors and beams to be shown in home storey and one storey down as they are linked to Roof floor as home storey,

the last thing to adjust FPCP to show above ceiling till down the roof slab as @Barry Kelly clarified before & as the attached ScreenShots.

[Lingwisyer]

If you do not need to default hidden overhead display for the beam, you could set it to Outlines Only. It will basically ignore your FPCP then and retain it's cover fill.

[Niranjan Das Sharma]

Is that applicable to slabs aswell? I am trying to do a fill on a slab above cut plane and is not showing up.

[Barry Kelly]

For me a slab with a cover fill shows the fill no matter what the height is.

Barry.

[jl_lt]

another possible solution would be to divide your plan in 2 different parts with different settings via cloned folders: one where the walls (and the rest of the elements) appear as you want them, and another where the beams appear as you want them (but not the walls).  Then, you can stitch/overlap the views together in the layout.   its a little bit more work, but this way you can control the settings independently. You can overlap different levels using this (where the beams appear correctly), or you might need to do special GO and layer combinations for the beams for it to work.

best of lucks!