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So if at the beginning of a project all of your saved views have the same FPCP as the Global setting, and you have never even opened up the FPCP option within the view settings, are they default to the global settings.
If the Global setting is now changed, do all the previously unchanged and never edited FPCP's within the views stay the same as the Global value or do they now become different. It seems that the 'global' value as it is called is really just a default FPCP for new views placed in the view Map. If I place new views in the view map they show to have the current 'global' FPCP, if I do not change or even open the settings of those views but now change the 'Global' FPCP, the placed views do not match the new global value. I do not see where the global value comes into play except in when creating new views in the view map.
But this still does not answer the question as to why a saved view with its saved FPCP, would sometimes display a wall without the windows (assuming some very low or very high cut plane) and then at other times the same saved view with assumable the same saved FPCP will display the wall with the windows.
Also another point that I guess I am still unclear on, is the 'Show Projection:' pull-down in the wall settings. I have all the walls set to 'Entire Element'. The Help file states the following:
Show Projection on Floor Plan
The Show Projection pop-up provides options for how much of the element to display. This control is located on the Floor Plan & Section panel of the element’s Tool Settings dialog box.
• Entire Element (default setting): The element will be displayed on all relevant stories.
Note: “Entire element” is the only available projection option for simple straight walls or simple/complex columns which are set to “Symbolic Cut” in their Floor Plan display. Floor Plan Cut Plane settings do not affect the display of these elements.
However, you may prefer not to show the entire element. In this case, you have two other ways to set its display in the Show Projection pop-up:
• by Relative Floor Plan Range: Choose to show the element on a range of stories (the current story, plus a given number of stories above and below it, and an optional offset.)
If you choose this option, this element will be shown on the stories defined as the Relative Floor Plan Range (i.e. the number of stories on which to show this element in either direction) in Document > Floor Plan Cut Plane.
Note: In certain situations, the current Floor Plan Cut Plane and Relative Floor Plan Range settings may conflict:
1 The Cut Plane level may be outside the current Floor Plan Range (e.g. an extremely small story height as compared to the default Cut Plane level). In this case, the Cut Plane will be automatically relocated to the upper limit of the Floor Plan Range (or to its lower limit, if the Cut Plane would fall below the lower limit).
2 The lower Floor Plan Range limit may be higher than the upper limit. In this case, the lower limit will be considered as both the lower and upper limit of the Floor Plan Range (which will also equals the Cut Plane level, as described in (1) above.)
• by Absolute Display Limit: Set a fixed lower limit (by default, this is Project Zero), then show all parts of the element above this limit.
If you choose this option, then the Absolute Display Limit set in Document > Floor Plan Cut Plane determines this element’s lower display limit.
For more information, see “Floor Plan Cut Plane”.
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It says that
Note: “Entire element” is the only available projection option for simple straight walls or simple/complex columns which are set to “
Symbolic Cut” in their Floor Plan display. Floor Plan Cut Plane settings do not affect the display of these elements.
If my walls are set to “Entire element” the Symbolic Cut” in their Floor Plan display is grayed out. Either way the FPCP should not be effecting my Entire Element walls. Does not seem to be the case.
Rubia Torres
