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ac10 walls

Anonymous
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walls in ac10:
home storey of wall starts at level 0.00 and ends at +2.50
wall base is at -0.05 and wall top is at +5.00.
when I select "show on / link to storey" - "own storey only" instead of the default "automatic" value the wall dissapears from the plan view. 3D is ok.

what should I do? I think I tried all the combinations with "floor plan display" and "projection" but the result is the same.



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ac10 int | win xp sp2
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Andy Thomson
Advisor
Laura wrote:
We would have walls disappear from plan view (all plan views), and we could only find them/select them by viewing in the 3D window.
My personal favorite is when the invisible wall is a degenerate sloping composite, then it doesn't show in plan, section or 3D, just gives errors. A little piece of the 'AntiArchicad'
Andy Thomson, M.Arch, OAA, MRAIC
Director
Thomson Architecture, Inc.
Instructor/Lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University Faculty of Engineering & Architectural Science
AC26/iMacPro/MPB Silicon M2Pro
Laura Yanoviak
Advisor
We ran into another problem with Automatic walls recently:

Published a story with Automatic walls (with base elevation @ 9" below story) to MOD. Walls show up fine in MOD file, but disappear when MOD file is hotlinked into Master file.
MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max, 96 GB of RAM
AC27 US (5003) on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.2
Started on AC4.0 in 91/92/93; full-time user since AC8.1 in 2004
SeaGeoff
Ace
James wrote:
It's good that AC can figure out how to display complex, especially sloping, elements by itself. This is a huge feature for roofs, assuming your roofs slope.
Again the theory is better than the implementation. If indeed your roofs do slope then presumably you'll have sloped (raked) walls below, the rake created with either a trim-to-roof or SEO. But the cut plane does not recognize a wall's slope. Ideally the FPCP would enable a single model to deliver a "normal" floor plan showing only walls (roof hiddden), displayed with their cut fills, and a cutaway plan showing the cut plane with all element above it displayed using their assigned overhead line attributes. But this does not work.

The FPCP was created to respond to the display challenges created by the introduction of angled walls but it ignores the complimentary challenge of raked walls. Thus it introduces a graphic inconsistency that dramatically reduces it value and requires workarounds or drafting to correct.
Regards,
Geoff Briggs
I & I Design, Seattle, USA
AC7-29, M1 Mac, OS Tahoe
Graphisoft Insider's Panel, Beta Tester
__archiben
Booster
Laura wrote:
Published a story with Automatic walls (with base elevation @ 9" below story) to MOD. Walls show up fine in MOD file, but disappear when MOD file is hotlinked into Master file.
yep! the same: four storey building and each floor is published as a MOD for the documentation guy. we couldn't figure out why no external walls were showing on the ground floor MOD in his file. took a week of head scratching to figure that out.

it's more trouble that it's worth . . . but i'm a masochist and persevere regardless . . . rrraaahhhhh!

~/archiben
b e n _ f r o s t
b f [a t ] p l a n b a r c h i t e c t u r e [d o t] n z
archicad | sketchup | morpholio | phpp
Laura Yanoviak
Advisor
~/archiben wrote:
. . . but i'm a masochist and persevere regardless . . .
In this profession? Aren't we all? . . .
MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max, 96 GB of RAM
AC27 US (5003) on Mac OS Ventura 13.6.2
Started on AC4.0 in 91/92/93; full-time user since AC8.1 in 2004