Surfaces display issue
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‎2017-10-24 03:24 PM
I'm having a problem with one particular file that's displaying surfaces all wrong.
See the attached image. The bottom image shows how this particular surface typically displays, and top other is in the problem file.
Both pictures are from files started from the same template, today.
Any help much appreciated!
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‎2017-10-24 10:33 PM
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‎2017-10-25 06:50 PM
That was really useful. It turned out there was a random couple of objects in the file on a closed layer. Got rid of them, shut the file down and re opened it and it was fine.
A lesson in keeping my models clean!

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‎2017-10-28 06:34 AM
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‎2017-10-30 02:03 PM
This is a typical 'Far from Origin' symptom. If you see that your textures get fuzzy, and/or the green selection box in 3D is not where the edges of the element is, then you can be sure that there's at least one element in your project that is far from your model (like at least ~5 km far).
This usually happens when you start working far from the ARCHICAD origin, but accidentally leave something close to it. In this specific case, either the objects on the hidden layer were far from the rest of the model, or they weren't scripted/saved properly, and their object origin was actually far from the model (that happens a lot, mostly because of objects created by Add-ons).
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‎2017-10-30 05:55 PM
dkovacs wrote:Thats exactly what happened! For some reason there were a couple of objects literally miles away from the main model.
Hi guys,
This is a typical 'Far from Origin' symptom. If you see that your textures get fuzzy, and/or the green selection box in 3D is not where the edges of the element is, then you can be sure that there's at least one element in your project that is far from your model (like at least ~5 km far).
This usually happens when you start working far from the ARCHICAD origin, but accidentally leave something close to it. In this specific case, either the objects on the hidden layer were far from the rest of the model, or they weren't scripted/saved properly, and their object origin was actually far from the model (that happens a lot, mostly because of objects created by Add-ons).