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?

[TomWaltz]

It would be really nice, but no

[Rakela Raul]

there r a couple of addons for that but we use a patterned slab...\
there is also a ceiling accessory in ac

[Bruce]

My understanding was that this is the drafting convention. Do you mean that the entire plan, including building envelope, would be flipped?

[TomWaltz]

The plans would still read in the same orientation, but with the floor plan cutting plane seeing upward instead of downward, removing the weird display order issues on slabs that show a ceiling and allowing elements that are "dashed above" on the plan to read solid.

Some people even include roof overhangs and soffits on them.

[Steve Jepson]

Use your 3d cutting plane.

Save the view you want of the ceiling and place it into the Layout on top of the reflected ceiling plan.

Can work for making projected or reflected ceiling plans.

[TomWaltz]

Steve wrote:
Use your 3d cutting plane.

Save the view you want of the ceiling and place it into the Layout on top of the reflected ceiling plan.

Can work for making projected or reflected ceiling plans.

... except 3D cutting plane does not affect the display order of slabs, does it?

[Steve Jepson]

Everything you want to change about the display order of slabs can be done in the view you make in model space.

Make the 3d cutaway view you place over it show only the ceiling.

[Anonymous]

The 3d cutting plan drawing over the reflected one is a nice idea, but how do you solve the problem of dashed contour walls of the floor above?
I usually redraw the complete floorplan with lines and sectioned fills for the structural plans. Is there a better solution? I wish ghost view could be saved and hotlinked with dashed lines...
Zoltán

[Steve Jepson]

You can make a view show anyway you want in model space. You can use a different cut plane individual views if needed. Then place that view on top the other drawings in Layout. This is how you can have a ghost story in layout. It may also be useful to use a different pen set for some of these drawings.