Double doors not separate. Any fix?

[Richard Morrison]

I was using a SmartParts double door, and noticed that vertical line between the leaves was missing. (It was showing if the door was highlighted, though, so it's "there".) I thought maybe it was a bug in the door object, but then noticed that the Graphisoft double door has the same problem. Any suggestions before I add this as a 2D line in the elevations?

[James Murray]

One more.

Wait, I could use a profile wall... oh.

And meshes are still totally anti-social.

Not trying to gotcha anybody, but this is a major peeve of mine. Live views of a model for CDs is Archicad's whole thing.

And please, no more undocumented object-breaking GDL changes.

(There's the j5 and j6 status codes, which refer to 'horizontal and vertical edge in line elimination', which sounds promising, but I can't see what they do. They are also present in 9.)

Don't get me wrong, they've made a big improvement in 10. But now that roof surfaces clean up in 3D, doesn't the joint bother you in plan? And on we go.

[Anonymous]

Hello James,
Your "notthisone.png" image appears to show
the low wall with a different material than
the other walls. Could this explain why it does
not clean up with the other wall ?

Your "nice.png" image appears to show
a resolution out of sync problem that has always
been with us in AC.

You had said in a previous post that in AC 10
PRISM_ based objects now clean up if put side by side
and there surfaces lay in a plane.

As I mentioned I had done some testing and found
no consistency in this.
Please see attached image.

Peter Devlin

[James Murray]

The coplanar surfaces are the same material. The addition of the third wall makes a corner. Corners are special for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Hello James,
I will have to check this out.
In previous versions this was always a problem
where a low wall extended from the corner of
two higher walls because of the miter outside edge
of the two higher walls.
I thought AC 10 had solved this problem
with the implementation of mitering
of only the portion of the edge that miters
with another wall. But I guess not.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Hello James,
I guess part of the problem mentioned in this thread is still with us.
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=9849
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

I just did some research in the library part D2 10.gsm.
I found the cause of the missing joint line between the two doors.
It does not have to do with co-planer surfaces.
The cause is in a macro called "dp_door panels".
The macro makes a door panel the full width of the finish
inside frame dimensions then cuts it in half twice to form
each panel of the pair of doors.
Problem is all of the cutpolya command's mask values are set to 8
which hides the edges of anything it cuts.
I found that if I changed the value of a variable at the beginning of the
master script called "lev" to equal zero the joint line would appear.
This macro does some goofy things.
probably because it is trying to do too many things
in too many different lib parts.
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Something of note.
The D2 10 object in the International Archicad library
does not have the missing line problem present in the
US version. The code is much simpler and cleaner
and has fewer layers of macro calls.
Geoff Briggs says that the INT library is superior to
the US library. Maybe us poor besotted US users
should be allowed to easily acquire the INT version.
Peter Devlin

[Rod Jurich]

Peter wrote:
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Please see attached image.

Peter Devlin

Appreciate your work Peter. Mind telling me the font name you use.
Thanks.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Peter wrote:
I found that if I changed the value of a variable at the beginning of the master script called "lev" to equal zero the joint line would appear.

This didn't work for me; regardless, still need a solution for the Storefront objects...

[Anonymous]

Rod,
The font is called "MrHand".
I thought it was a mac only font but Jay Garbarino uses it
and I think he is on a pc.
Peter Devlin