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demolitions and reconstructions

Anonymous
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In AC is there a way to assign a partial demolition of a wall, assign a color to demolition usual yellow, new construction to red. Sometimes a demolition in a wall its just a door, or closing a window. I´ve been using a layer combination bur makes a duplication of ententyes in project. It seems not very useful. Does have anyone experience in this kind of work? Help would be appreciated.
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Aussie John
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what I do is cut the wall and change the bit to be demolished into a demo layer and give it a different fill and dashed line. Then when I have a sheet for the new work that layer is turned off ( as it has been demolished!).
Basically I have three layers.

existing
demolished
and new

So, if I have a door to demolish I demolish the part of wall that contains the door.

This of course "demolishes" the part of the wall over the door but unless I am doing quantities that probably doesnt matter that often. If that is an issue it just gets a bit more complex.
Cheers John
John Hyland : ARINA : www.arina.biz
User ver 4 to 12 - Jumped to v22 - so many options and settings!!!
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Anonymous
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Project Framework also suggests that you explode the demolished items to 2D elements to avoid intersection issues (or at least it used to, haven't seen one for AC9 yet).
Aussie John
Newcomer
s2art wrote:
Project Framework also suggests that you explode the demolished items to 2D elements to avoid intersection issues (or at least it used to, haven't seen one for AC9 yet).
Yes Make sure the demolished layer has a different layer number for intersections
Cheers John
John Hyland : ARINA : www.arina.biz
User ver 4 to 12 - Jumped to v22 - so many options and settings!!!
OSX 10.15.6 [Catalina] : Archicad 22 : 15" MacBook Pro 2019
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