One line visible on all stories...how?

[Anonymous]

well...?

[Anonymous]

What about putting the grids in a MOD file and referenceing it on each floor? We have tried this and it seems to work well.

We had trouble with a GDL version because the dimensions would either move to a strange location or disappear completely if we ever had to update the GDL.

[Ralph Wessel]

mathome wrote:
I want a 2D reference grid system of lines and dimensions to show on all stories.

I'm with the others who suggested hotlinks/x-refs, but there is another option. You can draw your grid lines on just one storey (perhaps a dummy one) with beams of 0 thickness and depth, and ask for them to show on all stories. On every storey they can be:

• - Seen
  - Snapped to (including intersections)
  - Dimensioned to (associative or otherwise)

As an interesting side-effect, they can be seen and snapped to in 3D too. You can prevent accidental changes by locking them (or the layer). The annotation can be done with GDL objects, and likewise shown on all stories (you don't need to snap to them). The one big down-side is poor control over linestyle (it's a global setting).

[Anonymous]

Ralph wrote:

mathome wrote:
I want a 2D reference grid system of lines and dimensions to show on all stories.

I'm with the others who suggested hotlinks/x-refs, but there is another option. You can draw your grid lines on just one storey (perhaps a dummy one) with beams of 0 thickness and depth, and ask for them to show on all stories. On every storey they can be:

• - Seen
  - Snapped to (including intersections)
  - Dimensioned to (associative or otherwise)

As an interesting side-effect, they can be seen and snapped to in 3D too. You can prevent accidental changes by locking them (or the layer). The annotation can be done with GDL objects, and likewise shown on all stories (you don't need to snap to them). The one big down-side is poor control over linestyle (it's a global setting).

Smart! I'll try this one. It's neat to show the grid in 3D with 3D text.
Thanx Ralph.

[Anonymous]

I found this post because I'm wanting to show my title boundary on all storeys, without duplicating the linework for each storey. I like the idea of using beams to make lines visible on all stories, but found one catch is that zero width and height caused error messages. I also suspect the layer ranking will need to be different from all other layers, to avoid the beams accidentally interacting with 'real' building elements.
Of course, it's still a workaround - why not just make it so that lines can be marked as "make visible on all stories" ?

[Barry Kelly]

Why not put your title boundaries on a layout page?
Putting title blocks and borders in a layout master is the best place for them.

Then you can show any layout page as a Trace Reference if you need to know the extents of your page for modelling/annotating purposes.

Barry.

[David Maudlin]

dv_chris wrote:
why not just make it so that lines can be marked as "make visible on all stories" ?

While I agree with Barry that title boundaries belong on Layout sheets, the Morph Tool can be used to create lines (for example a property line) that will appear on all stories. It is still a 3D element, so would need to be hidden in 3D views.

David

[Anonymous]

To update this thread. To create a site boundary line that will appear on all stories and in 3D images, I have created a morph using the polygonal geometry method. In 'morph settings panel' Set FLOOR PLAN DISPLAY show on stories to 'All stories'. Set colour and line type using the OUTLINES Uncut line.