Problem: Unwanted cutting plane appears 2m in front of camera in 3D window

[Anonymous]

In AC23, seemingly at random, and occasionally, the 3D window view changes to have a cutting plane, approx 2m in front of the camera lens. It follows the camera wherever the camera goes, and is really annoying and unhelpful. I can't continue to do any useful editing in the 3D window after it happens, because I can't get closer than 2m to an object before it starts to disappear! I can't find anywhere to turn this "cutting plane" off, and I don't even know what it is -- and if it's a bug or a "feature" that has somehow been turned on. All the cutting plane features I've found seem to assume a static cut, not one that continuously follows the camera around.

Any ideas what it is, and how I can get rid of it... and how to stop it happening in the future.

My only current recourse is to abandon the current file and load a previously saved version.

I've attached a few screenshots of a fly-in to the building, to illustrate the "effect".

[Anonymous]

So trying to narrow this down.... by turning off layers to simplify....

I'm left with 3 layers turned on in the plan view window...
Terrain: only has one big mesh object.
Exterior Walls: has 4 wall objects.
Archicad Layer: has nothing (but I can't turn it off)

I have the 3D view set to OpenGL. I navigate using SpaceExplorer 3D mouse.

With nothing selected, I hit F5 (I'm on Windows, so f5 to display everything in 3D window)
Result: The mystery cutting plane cuts through objects in front of moving camera.

In plan view, I press ctrl-A (select all), and hit f5 again.
Result: No annoying cutting plane!

So the problem only happens when I don't specifically select the objects I want to shown in the 3D window, and instead rely on AC to automatically draw all the visible objects, that I have showing in plan, in my 3D window (which is the default way of working).

BTW, my AC23 version is 4006 NZE

Minh: do you still want me to send you my minimum file to try recreate this situation here?

[Minh Nguyen]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the detailed explanation! Yes, I would definitely be interested in taking a look at the file. I sent you a link via Private Message, with which you can upload the file directly to us.

Please let me know once the process is finished. Thank you once again!

Best regards,
Minh