SEO NO-GO

[Tom Krowka]

Have intersected various roofs via SEO process. Looks great in 3d. However, SEO does not appear to update the cover fill on the roof materials.
Is this how it typically works. Have been doing this for a some time now with Archicad and wondered if there is a work around. Is a pain in the neck to have to figure out the roof intersections the old fashioned manual way.

[vfrontiers]

You are not using the ROOF TOOL's built in intersection feature? Select one roof and cmd-clk on an opposing EDGE. It will join with the other roof... Repeat this choosing the opposite roofs and they will both join.

[David Maudlin]

SEOs do not change the 2D (plan) view, only the model.

David

[Anonymous]

The only workaround that I use , is to isolate the roofs ( the ones that modified by SEO) by layer combination , and create a 3D documentation , top view .

and place it where its needed in the layout book . at least 3DD is live !

[Tom Krowka]

Have not had real good luck with roof intersection tool. I usually get some crazy intersection that is not what I have in mind. Am going to add the seo/fill issue to the wish list. Seems pretty straight forward that one operation would cover all aspects of the elements involved.

[David Maudlin]

Tom:

I get very reliable results from Roof Intersections if I roughly draw the perimeters of the roofs where I think they belong before getting ArchiCAD to do the precise work. The issue with SEOs (besides the fact that they do not show in the plan view), is that you will probably end up using some roofs as both Operators and Targets, and the SEOs may become too complex for ArchiCAD to parse reliably.

David

[Erika Epstein]

Tom wrote:
I usually get some crazy intersection that is not what I have in mind.

Perhaps you could post a sample of what happened when you used the roof intersection method and sketch or note what you had wanted instead?