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Creating Openings from selection does not seem to work?

Reysol
Booster

Guys,

 

I am trying to create an opening based off of a column through multiple slabs.

The column collides with all slabs. I see nothing happens when I click 'Create Opening' button at the bottom of the 'Create Opening' palette. 

Not sure if I miss anything. 

Thanks a lot!

 

Operating system used: Windows 23


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Barry Kelly
Moderator

The column and the slabs are automatically trimming each other based on the building material strengths.

Therefore there is no intersection between the elements, so nothing to create the hole around..

 

Convert the column to a morph and try again.

Morphs to not automatically trim with other elements.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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No need to do that! Just changing the layer intersection number already is enough! (given that the slabs and the column is on different layers)

Using the same command it will cut the openings now.

 

Lucas Becker | AC 27 on Mac | Graphisoft Insider Panelist | Author of Runxel's Archicad Wiki | Editor at SelfGDL | Developer of the GDL plugin for Sublime Text | My List of AC shortcomings & bugs | I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again |

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Solution
Barry Kelly
Moderator

The column and the slabs are automatically trimming each other based on the building material strengths.

Therefore there is no intersection between the elements, so nothing to create the hole around..

 

Convert the column to a morph and try again.

Morphs to not automatically trim with other elements.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Solution

No need to do that! Just changing the layer intersection number already is enough! (given that the slabs and the column is on different layers)

Using the same command it will cut the openings now.

 

Lucas Becker | AC 27 on Mac | Graphisoft Insider Panelist | Author of Runxel's Archicad Wiki | Editor at SelfGDL | Developer of the GDL plugin for Sublime Text | My List of AC shortcomings & bugs | I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again |

POSIWID – The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does /// «Furthermore, I consider that Carth... yearly releases must be destroyed»

Thanks a lot, Barry. 

Coverting the column to a morph works!

Thank you, runxel! 

Moving the column to a different layer and assigning a different intersection number works too!

Thanks again! 

Yes, use a layer specifically for 'temporary' elements, or create a layer combination that has a different (or zero) layer intersection number for that column layer (maybe the combination can set all layers to zero).

Then you can temporarily switch to that layer combination to create the openings.

Then switch back to your real layer combination.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

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