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Section: hidden skin separator lines

Anonymous
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Hello,

Some skin separator lines off the composite structure are only visible in the floor plans not in any sections.

It are only those lines which fill is smaller than 25mm this.


For example the composite structure is as follow;
25mm gypsiumboard - 50 insulation and then again 25 mm gypsiumboard.

In section it shows just a simple wall 100mm thick. When i select the composites the hidden lines are white....


pls help. Thx
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Anonymous
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Tried everything no help...

Isn't it strange it only happens when the skin separator line is within 25mm of another line?


For example 50mm - 100mm - 50mm is no problem, but 25mm - 50 - 25 mm is...
Anonymous
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The problem is solved!

Solution:

When you use three symbol fills in a composite with the same name ex. empty fill 01 - fill 01 - fill 01, Archicad merges the fills and thus hiding the skin separator lines.


when changing the middle fill to empty fill 02 (fill 01 - fill 02 - fill 01) the problem is solved!

Epic but true:)
Anonymous
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Seren wrote:
When you use three symbol fills in a composite with the same name ex. empty fill 01 - fill 01 - fill 01, Archicad merges the fills and thus hiding the skin separator lines.
Not wanting to sound smug, I can not imagine any situation where you would want to use such fill names.

For me, the best way is to create fills with the actual name of what they represent. That way, every time you extract some quantities or even just tag a wall, you have all the information right there.
Anonymous
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Yes but it depends on what scale u draw and in which phase and if you're a student or professional

I name the fills like you do but i assign the same fill type so my metal stud wall is 3 times empty fill 01 8 )

thx all for the help!
Anonymous
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If you want to hide the content of the walls (at an early stage of the design, or on a smaller scale), you can always do that on the view options (sorry the screenshot is in portuguese).
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