Line Display Changes with Model View Options

[genarch]

Hello,
I would like a line that appears dashed in a floor plan view, but solid in a reflected ceiling view—does anyone know how to accomplish this, short of drawing separate lines on different layers? It would be nice to be able to do this with one line that changes its appears based on Model View Options, much like the way doors and windows can change their appearance.

[Erika Epstein]

What does the line represent?

[genarch]

The line would represent a soffit—dashed in plan view, but solid in a reflected ceiling view. I typically do this now with a dashed line on a layer shown in the plan view and another (solid) line on top of it on a layer only shown in the RCP, but it'd be nice to have it be just one line.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that lines (and other 2D elements) are considered to be annotative and not part of the building model itself. A line is a line and not a soffit, etc. This is an important (fundamental) distinction with exceptions not to be made lightly and eliminated where possible.

Unfortunately ArchiCAD still has a way to go to achieve easy, automatic ceiling plans. The lack of any actual ceiling tools being the foremost problem as I see it.

What we need is not smarter 2D but better BIM.