interior elevation sees through walls

[Dave Brach]

my interior elevation is looking at a wall and seeing right through it, showing the stair on the other side. In another case a door is showing up that is in wall that is perpendicular to the wall I am looking at, on the other side of the wall in the next room. Any ideas?

[Barry Kelly]

I have never had 100% success with the interior elevation tool - although it is better than when it first came about.
Still it has issues as you describe.
So I just use the standard section (or elevation) tool.

This post may offer a solution though.

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=210089

And here are some others discussing other problems (maybe some have been fixed now).

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=219270

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=159150

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=144344


Barry.

[Dave Brach]

Here is a screenshot showing the door showing. It is about 4 feet away on the other side of the wall.

[David Maudlin]

Dave:

On item to check in the Interior Elevations settings: Model Display > Exclude View Blocking Walls.

David

[Dave Brach]

I tried the "exclude view blocking walls" toggle, but can't really figure out what that does. Funny thing is, It never occurred to me to just use the "regular" elevation tool. From now on I'll just do that instead.

[David Maudlin]

Dave wrote:
I tried the "exclude view blocking walls" toggle, but can't really figure out what that does.

From the Help files:
Exclude View Blocking Walls: Check this box if you do not want intervening walls to be displayed in your Interior Elevation viewpoint.
So any walls inside the boundary will not be shown.

Dave wrote:
Funny thing is, It never occurred to me to just use the "regular" elevation tool.

For me, the single marker for multiple elevations is the advantage, but it is trickier to use.

David