Using Partial Structure Display for Structural Connection

[Emoke Csikos]

In the AEC industry it is a daily demand to architects to be able to present, display and export their architectural models simplified or filtered in certain ways. Cooperation with structural engineers usually require a structural model. There are several ways to appropriately filter the content to be exported:

• using layers and layer combinations (Document > Layer > Layer Settings...)
• using Partial Structure Display options (Document > Partial Structure Display)
• filtering the content of the 3D Window (View > Elements in 3D View > Filter and Cut Elements in 3D...)

You can set the structural function of all model elements in their Settings dialogue under the Categories and Properties tab:

There are four different options for Partial Structure Display:

The Partial Structure Display settings define how composite and complex structures appear. Walls, Slabs, Roofs and Shells can be defined as composite structures. Composites can be created and managed in Options/ Element Attributes/ Composites. 

 

Walls, Beams and Columns can have a Complex Profile structure as well. Complex Profiles can be created and managed in Profile Manager in Options/ Element Attributes/ Profile Manager .

The load-bearing skin of a composite or complex structure is called the Core. Skins can be defined as Core, Finish or Other. Partial Structure Display affects the display of elements in 2D and 3D windows alike, and it can be assigned to the following window types:

• Floor Plan
• 3D Window
• Section / Elevation / Interior Elevation/ 3D Document Each instance of these window types can have its own Partial Structure Display setting (for example, you can have three Section windows with three different Partial Structure Display settings).
• Worksheet / Detail If the source viewpoint is in the Floor Plan or is an Auto-update viewpoint, you can set Partial Structure Display settings for Worksheets and Details (separate ones for each window, if needed).

Partial Structure Display can be set for the current window at four different locations::

1. Document > Partial Structure Display
2. Properties / Settings in the Organizer / Navigator Project / View Map
3. Partial Structure Display pop-up in the Quick Options palette (Window > Palettes > Quick Options)
4. at the bottom of ARCHICAD's main window on the tab dedicated for Partial Structure Display

The Partial Structure Display setting is saved with the view. The following figures are examples of Partial Structure Display settings applied for different views.

Sections

entire model > without finishes > core only

 

3D View

entire model > without finishes > core only

entire model > core only    

Exporting to IFC

There is a model filtering option when saving the file as IFC:

 

[Johann_P]

This is a very explanatory treat, thanks.

What I am looking for though, is a way to show the structure as Archicad would in "Core Only" setting, but still show all the rest of the complex profile skins, but in a thinner, lighter pen for the structural and framing drawings.

For the general architectural plans I still need to show all the skins in a normal display.

The 2 examples done in Revit is what I'm trying to achieve in Archicad.

 

 

[Laszlo Nagy]

The only way I can think of right now of how this may be achieved is by defining two Pen Sets and achieving the desired line thicknesses by those two Pen Sets.