:?: RCP

[Anonymous]

This might be a ridiculous question but is there a way I may cut a section of my building(the 3d model i build) to look at the reflected ceiling plan?
Any methods, add-ons, tricks, or otherwise?
Thanks,
-matt

[TomWaltz]

RCPs (and Demo drawings) are pretty high up on the list of Archicad weak areas.

You can do a lot with turning layers on and off and Display Options, but nothing that gives you a true RCP

[Anonymous]

okay, thanks. i was just hoping there was a way to create a true rcp.

[Aussie John]

You can make your cutting plane through the top of the wall and this gives you an effect of a RCP.

My bugbear with RCPs is the roof tool when used as a sloping ceiling shows the top of the roof not the bottom, the thicker the plane, the greater the plan error.

[Richard Morrison]

TomWaltz wrote:
You can do a lot with turning layers on and off and Display Options, but nothing that gives you a true RCP

Pardon my ignorance, but what distinguishes a "true" reflected ceiling plan from the kind of RCP we can generate now?

[__archiben]

Richard wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but what distinguishes a "true" reflected ceiling plan from the kind of RCP we can generate now?

maybe we should lobby for an 'under-cover' fill so that when set to RCP the floor plan generates the vectorial hatching assigned to the bottom of elements?!

~/archiben

[Thomas Holm]

Richard wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but what distinguishes a "true" reflected ceiling plan from the kind of RCP we can generate now?

Maybe you could turn the floor into a mirror? But to look through the ceiling it has to be transparent, and thus hard to seen when reflected....

[TomWaltz]

A Reflected Ceiling Plan is supposed to be what you would see if you ran a cutting plane though your building at 4'-0" and you had a mirror mounted on top of the cutting plane, so you saw the underside of everything on the ceiling.

[Richard Morrison]

TomWaltz wrote:
A Reflected Ceiling Plan is supposed to be what you would see if you ran a cutting plane though your building at 4'-0" and you had a mirror mounted on top of the cutting plane, so you saw the underside of everything on the ceiling.

Well, yeah, but what is preventing you from getting this information easily shown in 2D? You turn on the lighting layer, the ceiling grid, etc. What am I missing? An RCP is sort of a 2D fiction in any event.

[TomWaltz]

Most of the time, it works.

It's only when you have complex ceilings or want some elements to be solid lines on the RCP and dashed in the floor plan that it's a problem (for me, anyway).