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Transparent materials and wall handover problems

Anonymous
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Hello everyone! I have two building walls, one that is transparent and produces a wrong display when it comes in contact with another wall.
Here's a GIF demo.
thank you for your help

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Bruce
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My guess would be because the transparent material has a higher priority than the brick. Try giving the brick material a higher priority...
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Barry Kelly
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Rather than two separate walls (they will always try to trim each other automatically), can you use a composite wall.
Your composite skin can be a transparent material and it is much better to have one wall rather then two or more walls running parallel.

I think you can even select both wall and choose to save as a composite wall (right mouse click option? - I don't have Archicad in front of me at the moment).

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Cool GIF. I think this is the first one I have noticed in an ArchiCAD Talk Forum post.

If you need to keep the walls as separate skins for one reasons or another, keep them on different Layers so you can use the different Layer Intersect Numbers to control their intersection. If two elements are both set to intersection group 0 they will not intersect.

The Building Intersect Priority number is for the standard situation you probably want to maintain in other places and for future use. The Layer Intersect Number is something you can use to control element intersections per unique Layer Combinations.
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