Hello,
With AC 10's new way of displaying the floor plan as a littoral
cutplane through a story, if doors and windows are placed
in slanted, double slanted, or battered walls the doors and windows,
if projection is enabled, show as they would if one sawed off the wall
at the cutplane level and looked down on the wall.
Doors and windows show trim faces and other detail normally
only seen in elevation.
AC must get the information for displaying such things from
the 3D model. I say this because I have some doors and windows
I made in AC 6.5 who's 2D scripts have no 3rd dimension information
yet they display just like AC 10 windows and doors.
I placed an instance of the AC 10 object "Architectural Column"
that has a round column sitting on a square impost to see if
AC 10 objects would display the same way that doors and windows do.
This object's 2D symbol was just a circle without the square impost
showing below. I checked a few more objects and concluded that
only windows, doors, and Archicad tool elements show this behavior.
I notice that there is a new global variable called "GLOB_CUTPLANES_INFO [4]"
that gets the floor plan cutplane settings from the project.
This information would be necessary for developers to write 2D scripts
that would show how objects look if cut off by the floor plan cutplane.
But why would this be needed if AC 10 can get information
from the 3D model of doors and windows which are GDL objects ?
If AC can do it for doors and windows why not for any GDL object
that has a 3D script ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin
