Show Zones in Section or Elevation Archicad 25

[reidweber]

Hello, I am excited to see that you can now view zones in section and elevations in Archicad 25. This feature prompted me to download this version and transfer from 24.  But when I open a file, I cannot figure out how to display a zone in Section. Is there a toggle I'm missing to display that information?  In the graphisoft overview it went into a lot of detail about the new zone tag but the zones aren't visible in section to tag. 

 

Floor Plan showing Zones

Section not showing Zones

 

[David Shorter]

Great pity that the Zone stamp doesn't link directly to a Surface. It means we have to manually link the colour on the floorplan to the surface in section, elevation and 3D

 

[Electric Flute]

So zones in sections/elevations are solid blocks. If I want to see my project I must make a Graphic Override Combination to make them transparent. But I don't always want glass to be transparent.

Half baked solution.

[Barry Kelly]

I think the best solution if you want to keep the glass in windows as solid (not transparent) is to wire frame the zone layer in the elevations as @James Murray suggested and use a Graphic Override to hide the contours.

Or hide the zone layer completely as @reidweber suggested - just be sure to turn off the option in the label to hide with associated elements.

Just when you need to add labels, be sure to change to a layer combination that shows the zones as solid.

Barry.

[Electric Flute]

Thanks Barry, these workarounds do works. But they mess with our layers standards.
I think we have to stand loud that those workaround are not the best practices. Perhaps Graphisoft listen us.

[David Shorter]

If you create Surfaces to match the Zone Stamp colour and match these surfaces to each Zone stamp then everything works because these Surface can have transparency without a GO. 

 

[Electric Flute]

Yes, but this only works with transparency turned on in Section Settings. This option affects all the glasses, and maybe I don`t want them to be also transparent. That is the point.

[David Shorter]

Zones in Section don't have to be solid and glass can be solid if required.

 

[reidweber]

What settings do you have applied to your zone surfaces to create the transparent zones and opaque glass?

[David Shorter]

I have a series of Surfaces which match the Zone Category colours. I use them for both the Section and 3D views. These Surfaces are semi transparent and the Sections have transparency on. I have introduced an additional GO rule which changes the Glass Surface to white (to remove the transparency). I use the Zone surfaces as shown because I think its a waste of time to to just show Zones in 3D as Glass especially when creating a Massing Study.

Hope this helps.

[tomwuertz]

I don't have a checkbox under Project Preferences>Legacy to uncheck.  I'm using Archicad 25 3002 USA FULL