Projected wall line type?

[Barry Kelly]

Am I missing something really obvious or has Graphisoft.

There doesn't appear to be a line type selection for the projected (uncut) portion of the wall.
There is a pen colour option and the overhead has kine type and pen colour options.

Basically I want to model a wall that is below the cut plane (hence projected) but I want this wall to be under a timber capping or benchtop.
Therefore I would like to asign a dashed line type - but can't in an obvious fashion.

There are work-arounds of course.
Like overlaying a dashed white line of stripy fill - yuk.
Or setting the wall to show "overhead all" - which seems counter-intuitive as it is not an overhead wall.
Or set it as "symbolic cut" and then play around with the cut surface line type and fills - which is my prefered method as I tend to use "symbolic cut" most often anyway (legacy from old V8.1 models).

But I would like to be able to use the "projected with overhead" setting more as it makes sense to have Archicad do all the thinking regarding the height of wall verses line type to show and then just tweak the odd few walls that you need to.

Does anyone else have a similar issue with this or another solution?

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Hello Barry,
Maybe the reason there is no uncut line type is because
that pen is also used in the 3D window as the wall edge pen
and there are no line types in 3D except solid.
This is the only line that does this double duty.
My best guess.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

Graphisoft missed the boat on this one, and many people are unhappy about it.

All we can do is cross our fingers that it will be included in an upcoming version.

Cheers,
Link.