Bad archicad day

[KeesW]

I've created a wine rack out of walls and slabs and am mounting it above the fridge. My layer is 'overhead joinery'. On the floor plan I want to show it with hidden lines.

Is it too much to ask my lines to show as hidden lines by selecting symbol lines = hidden lines in the Cabinet selection box? It isn't happening!

That is what drives me mad with Archicad - simple things, simple commands, simple words do not mean what they say!!!

[Karl Ottenstein]

The walls are easy: for the Floor Plan Display, select Overhead All and set your desired linetype and pen for the overhead lines (hidden/dashed, etc).

Not sure what you mean by the Cabinet selection box.

Slabs do not have this display option. (Frustrating that the display options, including cover fills, etc., are not identical across all tools.) So, if you show them with a hidden line in plan, they will be shown with that line type in section/interior elevation too.

Cheers,
Karl

[Barry Kelly]

I'm not sure what you mean by the "cabinet selection box".

If you have saved the walls and slabs as an object then you need to do this.

Barry.

[KeesW]

Thanks Barry. That's what I did but it doesn't work. Karl says that it doesn't work for slabs.

Maybe I need to first convert it into a library object and then it might work. I'll try this next.

Cheers Gurus!

[Barry Kelly]

What I have shown you is for when you haved saved the walls and slabs as an object.

If they are still just walls and slabs then you have to control the line-type through the wall and slab settings dialogue.
Walls can be set to "Projected with Overhead" or "Overhead All" and then you can set the overhead line-type.
Slabs don't have this option - you just set the line-type you want for the perimeter.

Barry.

[Fran_ois Chatelain]

Hi KeesW,
you probably have overlapping lines, which, even though they have the same line type, will show as solid once they're on top of each other.

Cheers
Francois