Strange wireframe floating window!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

We have a few of these floating around our model. Both doors and windows, seeming to float in space (no walls or anything near them, all layers turned on).

Is this a case of the mysterious ghostly floating window?

[Anonymous]

To add to the mystery, they also disappear from certain angles...

[Anonymous]

Did you try deleting any other windows and see if the ghost window is associated with them?

[Anonymous]

No. This shouldn't be happening regardless of what's causing it..

[Laszlo Nagy]

Do you have any visible layers set to wireframe?
Maybe there is a Wall on such a layer and the Windows are in that Wall.

Can you select any of these Windows by selecting any of their corners?

[Anonymous]

No visible layers set to wireframe, all layers are turned on and there is no wall there. I cannot select the window at all.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Maybe your file data structure got damaged somehow and a reference remained in it to a Window that does not really exist in 2D.
I would try this (may not work but worth a try):
Show only Walls and Windows in 3D.
Then I would delete half of the Walls and see if that deletes the ghost Window.
If yes, then I would then delete only half of the half that resulted in the disappearance of the ghost Window.
By repeating this having thing we can get to the Wall the Window is connected to.
This of course assumes that the Window is attached to a Wall logically within ArchiCAD as all normal Windows do.
If you found the Wall the deletion of will get rid of the Window then you should probably just delete it and recreate it.
This way you can get rid of the problematic element that created the phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

Laszlo,

I'll give it a try...

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Maybe the new hotfix will address this? I see from reading the release notes it fixes a lot of other teamwork problems we were having...