Floor Plan Cut Plane and Story Settings
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‎2006-11-30
07:46 PM
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‎2024-07-09
11:16 AM
by
Aruzhan Ilaikova
I am having some difficulty understanding
the logic of the floor plan display in AC 10.
I draw a wall 8'-0" high with it's base
at at 0'-0" from story one.
I set the floor plan cut plane height
to 9'-0" from story one.
If I set the "height to next" in the
story settings to 7'-6" then the wall
contours show as cut lines
If I change the "height to next" to 8'-6"
then the wall contours show as uncut lines.
I am unclear about what the height to next
has to do with how a wall is shown as
cut or uncut by the floor plan cut plane.
Perhaps someone could explain this.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin
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‎2006-12-01 02:43 AM

Cheers,
Link.
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‎2006-12-01 03:07 AM
What if the 8' wall were set to "Show on own story only" and the door "Symbollic"?
Could be wrong, this gets me very confused with all the possible combinations of settings. I know you've explained it in depth, Link, but it just isn't getting thru' here I'm afraid.

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‎2006-12-01 03:37 AM
s2art wrote:No worries mate, sometimes I just like to find a harder wall to bang my head on, is all! And it's not because people don't get it, it's because it is so hard to get.
Peter
What if the 8' wall were set to "Show on own story only" and the door "Symbollic"?
Could be wrong, this gets me very confused with all the possible combinations of settings. I know you've explained it in depth, Link, but it just isn't getting thru' here I'm afraid.

But you're right of course. Peter can use the
Clear as mud right?

Cheers,
Link.
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‎2006-12-01 04:22 AM
Sorry I was out.
All openings are set to symbolic.
All walls are set to show on own story only.
Link, the option "symbolic cut" is always grayed out
in my AC 10 projects. If I select "cut only" the low wall
disappears completely.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

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‎2006-12-01 04:34 AM
Cheers,
Link.
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‎2006-12-01 04:45 AM
I changed the door in the eight foot high wall from symbolic
to projected with overhead and now I can see the casings
but the "symbolic cut" for the wall is still grayed out.
I just checked in Archicad Help and it says that this option
is not available for complex or sloped walls
but all of my walls are simple vertical walls.
Honest.
Peter Devlin

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‎2006-12-01 04:52 AM
Cheers,
Link.
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‎2006-12-01 04:52 AM
when I reset it to own story the symbolic cut became not
grayed out so I selected that and as you promised
the wall shows with cut contours and the door is visible.
I did not know that that was one of the implications of "Automatic"
I thank you once again Link.
Peter Devlin

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‎2006-12-01 05:02 AM
Peter wrote:I think GS is trying to tell us that you can't set multi-story wall to Symbolic. Since symbolic can be thought of as 'Show it like it was in AC9' and in AC9 we couldn't have multi-story walls, it starts to make sense.
I did not know that that was one of the implications of "Automatic"


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‎2006-12-01 05:16 AM
Maybe it makes sense but one of the things I have always
appreciated about Archicad is, that unlike some other applications,
one is allowed to do things in very large number of different ways
even if some of those possible ways will get one into trouble.
I hope GS isn't going autocratic on us.
Cheers,
Peter Devlin