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Making stuff visible on other plans!

Anonymous
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I have some walls I would like to seen in the upper plans. With slabs or meshs thats easy, there's an option where you can select what you want to make visible on other plans. As for walls, this does'nt happen. What should I do?

Thank you!
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adzik
Newcomer
One way is to create "dummy walls" with a height of 0.0 meters on the story you want them floor plan that you want to show them.

You can also just draw the walls with lines/fills.
Running ArchiCAD 23 INT.
David Maudlin
Virtuoso
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You will need to familiarize your self with the Floor Plan Cut Plane, this is the method Graphisoft has developed for showing walls (and other elements) accurately on multiple floors. The wall Floor Plan Display will need to be set to something rather than Symbolic, the settings you need depend on what you are trying to achieve, the Floor Plan Cut Plane is a cut through the plan like a section is a vertical cut through the model.

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Anonymous
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I work with the portuguese version so I try to translate menu names as best as I can! Where can I find (in what menu) the"Floor Plan Cut Plane"? I refuse to believe that the best way to this is creating dumy walls! Why is'nt it like the slab tool?
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
adzik wrote:
One way is to create "dummy walls" with a height of 0.0 meters on the story you want them floor plan that you want to show them.

You can also just draw the walls with lines/fills.
Very strongly advise against using this 'solution'! Zero height walls cause export problems with Artlantis and perhaps other software.

Floor Plan Cut Plane, or stacked drawings, are recommended solutions.

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
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Thanks for the help guys!

I made it through "Floor Plan Cut Plan", it looks great now!

Thanks again!
adzik
Newcomer
Karl wrote:
Very strongly advise against using this 'solution'! Zero height walls cause export problems with Artlantis and perhaps other software.

Floor Plan Cut Plane, or stacked drawings, are recommended solutions.

Karl
I wasn't aware of that, thanks for the tip 😉
Running ArchiCAD 23 INT.
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