region view on floorplan

[Debraeve DIego]

What would also be convenient in Archicad (and this is possible in Revit), is that you can draw a local “region view” in the floor plans where you can set the “floor plan cut plane settings” separately for this “region view”. (Useful for example if there are windows drawn at ceiling height that a normal cut plane of 150cm does not show).

[Barry Kelly]

In Archicad, you can have as many views as you like of a plan.

Each view can have its own Floor Plan Cut Plane height.

If you don't want the entire floor plan, you can crop the frame of the drawing (view) when you place it on a layout.

Is this what you are after?

Barry.

[Debraeve DIego]

a “region view” that you can draw in floor plan in which you can set in this region view a custom floor plan cut plane hight that differs from the floor plan cut plane hight in the floor plan settings

[Barry Kelly]

In your storey view, you can set the Floor Plan Cut Plan settings as you wish.

You can then duplicate the view and make completely different settings.

So you can have as many views of the plan as you like with as many different settings as you want.

If you are working in the Project Map, you can only have one sett of 'master' settings that you have to manually set.

But if you work on views that you have saved in the View Map, they will remember your settings.

It is these views that you place on layouts as drawings, so you never have to worry about the settings.

Barry.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Barry, what the op is saying is that this can be done in Revit relatively easily by creating a polygonal boundary and setting Floor Plan Cut Plane settings for that region that are different from the Floor Plan Cut Plane settings of the whole View. No need to save various Views and arrange them on a Layout. It would be a faster/more elegant solution.

[Barry Kelly]

So you have a region inside the main plan that has a cut plane that is different to the main plan outside of that region?

One plan (view) with two different areas with different cut planes?

That could still be done with 2 views overlaid on a layout.

Barry.

[Debraeve DIego]

Barry,

What laszlo Nagy writes is correct.
In Revit, this is possible.
It would be nice if Archicad could also do this.

It is still possible with 2 views on top of each other on a layout.
why mess with layouts on top of each other, that this could be easier directly in the view map floor plan ....

Debraeve DIego

[Mahmoud Qenawi]

Hi all,

Starting from @Debraeve DIego speech: (this “region view”. (Useful for example if there are windows drawn at ceiling height that a normal cut plane of 150cm does not show).

Yes, you can do that in Revit as a workaround solving the shortage of Revit to handle viewing 2 windows or openings placed in different levels, right?

Here, in Archicad you don't need this Region view, why? As you can handle this situation simply & easily without any workarounds.

Kindly, take a look at this post for stepped levels houses' presentation issue.

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[Karel Landa]

Hi all,

What @Debraeve DIego is suggesting is great and I think it represents an item from old Roadmap about stories settings (I don't remember the name and now the old roadmap site is not available).

One thing is to be able to locally change the Floor plan cutting plane for a windows but if there is a large scale project where there are multiple levels in one storey, this is a situation where this is more needed.

What is @Barry Kelly saying is for me a workaround and not a good one since I need to either turn on trace and reference to see the other parts of the whole layout or have a look on the layout itself.

Also, for this locally set floor plan cutting plane there should be a setting to set the height to where this part can see (same as is currently in the Floor plan cut plane settings).

[Barry Kelly]

Just set the window floor plan display as 'Symbolic'.

Or change the entire wall to 'Symbolic'.

Barry.

[Karel Landa]

@Barry Kelly again not an ideal solution. I know about this and I believe others as well, but sometimes you need to be able to show wall as symbolic as well as above/under floor plan cut plane.

Just now I'm dealing with something similar where I would like to have profile wall set as symbolic cut but as you know, profile wall is not possible to set as symbolic and my wall is too low to change the floor plan cut plane.