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items on ground floor showing on floor above?

Anonymous
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I have columns on my ground floor plan and they are showing up on my floor plan above. I have set the columns to 'show on home story only' and checked all story settings to ensure they stop at floor levels. How do I get the columns to not show up on my story above?

Thanks
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Anonymous
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Floor plans as .pdf - you can see the columns showing up on the first floor plan - even under the floor slab, which they do not go through. Their height is lower than the first floor level. I have even tried making their height really low and they still show up...?
Laszlo Nagy
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I suppose that you switch from one Story to another by activating a saved View.
If this is the case, check the setting of the View "1. 1st Floor". Maybe one of its settings is causing this.
If you cut a Column from Story -1 then immediately paste it back, does it make any difference on how it is displayed on the upper Story?
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Anonymous
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I am not sure what you mean by 'saved view'. I use both floor levels from both view map and project map with the same results. Interestingly, if I cut a column from the ground floor and paste on the first floor - it now shows up on the second floor. Clearly there is something about the columns causing them to show up on the floor above - even though all the settings I can find are directing them not to do so. I paste it back to the ground floor and results are still the same. Puzzling...
shtarkel
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Give us a screen shot of story settings and a section trough the columns or upload somewhere the .PLA file so we can play with it
David Maudlin
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Dogwood:

I cannot reproduce your problem, but I would try changing the Floor Plan Display from Cut Only to Symbolic Cut (which ignores the Floor Plan Cut Plane).

David
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Anonymous
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Thanks David,

I tried changing the columns to 'symbolic cut', but still have the same issue. Also tried restarting the computer and redoing the columns with different parameters - still show up on the floor above...???
Anonymous
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Shtarkel, how do I upload a .pla (.pln?) file?
shtarkel
Participant
Upload the PLA file here - https://mega.co.nz/ so we can see in details and experiment.
Anonymous
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https://mega.co.nz/#!TBVSSYJJ!o_rojkEI68hI_9eYGryTshp1UtNELpojY0wwCQrZ7Uk

hope i did this right... file uploaded w/ link to it above...?
Erwin Edel
Rockstar
Select all your columns and on Floor Plan and Section button pick "show on relevant stories" to fix the odd bug of them displaying on the wrong story.
Erwin Edel, Project Lead, Leloup Architecten
www.leloup.nl

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