assistance w/ SEO wall displaying on floor plan?

[proto]

In plan, I'm expecting to see the wall as solid below 4' & dashed above that datum.

However, it doesn't seem to be doing that...what should I look at to rectify this?

I've rebuilt it several times & I get the same thing. I'm guessing there's a setting I'm missing?

I'm able to delete the linework in the partial plan enlargement, but the plan from which it comes is still "wrong."

Any thoughts on what to look at to resolve this condition?

Thanks up front!

[DGSketcher]

AC doesn't show SEO's in plan. What you could do is simply split the wall along it's length and adjust the base height of the upper section to be above the cut plane. It should then display as overhead lines. The SEO's can still be applied for the 3D / section drawings to show correctly.

[proto]

If this is correct, it seems like a serious failing but my perspective is merely as a beginner.

What do experienced people do to get past it? stop using SEO? Use it selectively. Any sloped wall intersection seems to need this operation to maintain parametricity.

Conveniently, I have a building section looking right at this part of the building.

Not sure how to use the SEO stuff just for 3d/section but not plan...? And still have the two hgt walls for the plan?

[proto]

thank you for your time in trying to explain

i'm going to have to walk thru this separately because it sounds complicated & maybe a pita

my situation is upside down from yours

i'm not so concerned that it's dimensionally accurate at the cut line -- more that i want the GC to not point at it and say "you showed a full hgt wall in the plan & that's what we built"

[Steve Jepson]

oh yes. Very common situation.  I think you will find that just putting an opening in that wall below the stair will do the trick.  

[proto]

how does that work in elevation/section?

[Steve Jepson · Accepted solution]

it works just as expected.  You can adjust and change that kind of opening in a section, elevation, 3d view... just mode the nodes of the opening to where you want them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNA8G8vBUU  

[Vasileios S_]

This is a destructive method, but you can also convert the wall to a morph.

It's better to convert the wall to morph first and then apply SEO.

[proto]

thank you for the explanation, but esp the picture & YT link

i get it now

i appreciate the clarity & extra effort & the fact that you are doing this in what is likely an otherwise busy day (same for all the other respondents, TY!!)

[Laszlo Nagy]

Another method would be to split the Wall in two at the point where the floor plan cutting plane intersects with the lower surface of the slanted cut in the Wall (you can find that point in an Elevation parallel to the Wall), then display the above-cutplane portion as an overhead element, using dashed lines.

 

[proto]

ok, i'm still not getting the dashed overhead line.

I created the opening.

In the Opening Selection Settings, I chose:

- chose "No Symbol" for both the Cut & Uncut Symbols.

- changed the linetype of Cut Line to be Hidden

[edit] I changed the Contours on Open Edges to be "Show as Overhead". Now the opening is showing as Hidden in plan view