Are there plans to incorporate Reflected Ceilings in AC ?

[Anonymous]

I mean a true reflected ceiling plan where it would appear like your were actually looking up at the modeled ceiling (instead of now where your RCP's in Archicad are actually looking down on the ceiling). Maybe this functionality already exists by tweaking the cut plane settings......any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

Wall contours of the next floor above the actual one can not be set in any view dashed... it is only possible to modify the elements own settings, that's my major problem...
Neither in normal groundplan view, nor in cut-plane projected view - except if you use the special lines option in Special menu... but it has not been published and supported in AC10 yet, however it could be already used in AC9.

[Steve Jepson]

sure they can. Just go the the floor above, make it look like you want, save the view and place in on top of your refelected ceiling plan in Layout. Besure you use the transparent background setting when you place the drawing in Layout.

[Anonymous]

I understand your idea, but this way you can make only static drawings, which you won't refresh any more automatically. Instead, you have to change the wall contours line type to dashed, every time the building changes and resave the view, than change the line type back to solid...

[Steve Jepson]

I probalby do not understand what you want to do.

the drawings will all update either automatically or manually. You can set each drawing independently.

[Link]

Zoltán wrote:
Wall contours of the next floor above the actual one can not be set in any view dashed...

In AC10 you can set your walls above to 'Projected with Overhead'. In the story below, set your cut plane to show 2 sories above, or 1 story above with enough of an offset to cut into the base of the upper walls.

Cheers,
Link.