Joints

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

Imagine a straight wall made up of a set of panels (wall portions) of the same material. I'm able to keep the joints in the plan view by setting its layer intersection group to 0. How can I keep viewing the joints (or outlines of each element) in sections, elevations and 3D views?

Thanks in advance

[Erich]

Since elements that share a material will heal, you need to make an identical copy of your material (but with a different name) and use it for alternate panels.

HTH

[Anonymous]

Hi Erich,

Does this mean that to read the joints of, just as an example, a box made of MDF boards (walls and slabs) i have to do duplicate the material and rename it? (in this case i should duplicate it twice since the slabs should be different from the walls!)

[Erich]

If you are modeling individual boards and do not have a gap between them then the answer is yes.

If you do not need the individual boards modeled then perhaps you can accomplish your need with a texture instead. However, this would not work for your box example.

[Anonymous]

Erich,

You've made it clear. This is the same kind of behavior Archicad has with fills, isn't it? Even if certain things are built with individual elements made from the same material, it automatically joins these elements in sections not giving you the chance to clearly understand the configuration (section) of each individual element. The workaround is to duplicate and rename the fill so i can get the section outline of each element. The problem will always be reflected in the maps/quantities where you have several materials when in fact it's just one.
There should be an option regarding elements instead of making up different names for the same material, don't you think?

Thank you very much