I think I had a thread in the wishes forum on a type of display order manager. Currently, all we have is guess and check "bring forward, send to back, bring to front" type juggling. One thing that can help with display order is the Element Info Pallet (under window > pallets), it lists display order group. You can also reset display order. But seems like there should be a better approach to display order. As for plan cut seetings, there is a floor plan cut plane setting per view; I don't think we need to roll that into the MVO settings.
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Really, I think that every element has its own required and expected display settings which were developed year by year to match the actual needs.
But at the same time, I don’t mind to see that in Archicad despite unifying functions is not always the ideal solution, otherwise you want Archicad to be the same like Revit.
It would great if all items (objects, walls...) could behave the same as slab, meaning, projecting more than 1 up and 1 below, but be flexible in it's projection like "slabs".
Also It would be good if there was more than 1 pen colour to project above/ below. It would allow to create the illusion of depth (like a 1 floor roof could look more distant on the 5 th floor than on the 3 rd floor).
Yes! We don't always use slabs as floor slabs, or beams as literal beams - so there shouldn't be so many imposed restrictions on visibility across stories. There are other areas where the tools are inconsistent - beams for example can't display cover fills if they are above the cut plane - what do you do about RCPs? Making them all a 'symbolic' display shouldn't be the solution.
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