disappearing walls in hotlinked modules

[Anonymous]

Hey all!

i am doing two story row houses and having a little difficulty. I am currently having them put in as units in their very own pln and hotlinking them in a building file, where the roofs, exterior elevations, attic walls on the gables, etc are placed. What we are seeing in the 3d window is that for some reason the walls on the units keep disappearing. EG I have done the unit, and it has two instances, and on one of the instances the walls were missing. Then I had her delete the unit save it as another name and reinsert it and it was fine. Well a bit later we looked at it and the walls were missing again. Did all the investigations I could think of. (been on archicad since version 5), then deleted the renamed unit and mirrored the unit so that there were two instances of the same unit and the walls were back! Can anybody make any sense of this?

thanks!

[Erika Epstein]

I know there have been some problems with mirrored hotlinks, but you are finding the reverse. Usually when walls 'appear' to be missing it's because there are two in the same space.

Can you post some screenshots, one of the module alone in 3D and the other when wall appears missing?

[Anonymous]

Try setting the walls from the module on Home Story Only.

HTH

[Scott Bulmer]

Hey Erika!
The mirrored module missing walls issue existed in 12 for me as seen in the attached image. I am at a point of commencing CDs and considering moving the model to 13. Before starting that time consuming process, I'd like to know if the MMMW issue has been fixed in 13?
Gracias amigos!

[Anonymous]

Hi Scott, don't mind if I reply? This issue with these walls is definitely solved in AC13.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm using AC18 and am having the same problem.
When I mirror a module, sometimes, walls disappear.
Is anyone still having this problem?

[Anonymous]

I am still having this problem! What is also very weird is that the project being shared, different users don't have the same display. The whole office is out of ideas and we're all feeling quite desperate. Abvent's hot line doesn't have a solution.

[haymont]

Having the same issue here with hotlinked modules and mirrored walls disappearing!!! It is doing my head in and seems like a MAJOR GLITCH in the software (version 18) as I am stumped as to what is causing it.

[schagemann]

This is a known bug in AC18 TW files - apparently the latest hotfix should sort this... we got an interim fix before so can not really confirm.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I was told the 5100 will do the trick. We're only waiting for the French version to come out. Any day now...