patricks
2006-10-03, 09:54 PM
I'm having alot of problems with structural components way up above my floor level, 20+ feet, displaying in my floor plan view. For reference, the plan view's range is set to the default settings of bottom 0, cut plane 4' and top 7'-6" above Level 1.
Now I had some issues before with beams showing in the floor plan, which seemed to be fixed by changing the Analytical Projection Plane from Level 1 to Top of Beam, but now it's happnening on some other beams and even columns, even when the beam was set to Top of Beam.
So I have several horizontal beams about 20 feet above the floor. They're all set to Top of Beam for projection plane, all is fine. I also have some columns from the floor coming up to the underside of one beam, which show correctly in the floor plan.
I copied one of the columns over to the end of one of the beams, and then changed the top and bottom offsets so that it became a stub column, with the bottom of the column at the TOP of the beam, and so on. And yet, it was still visible in floor plan! And also after copying the column, one of the beams up above suddenly became visible in plan.
Even though the top of the beam and the bottom of the stub column were already set to the same elevation, I tried attaching the bottom of the column to the beam. That did the trick and made it not visible in my floor plan.
I'm just not understanding what the deal is with all this stuff. I had beams that were correct before, not visible in plan with the projection plane set to Top of Beam, then after copying and moving some elements around, suddenly they became visible. I had to set the projection plane on those beams to some level higher than the top of the beam to get them to disappear in my floor plan.
Anyone have any insight to all this crazy structural visibility stuff?
Now I had some issues before with beams showing in the floor plan, which seemed to be fixed by changing the Analytical Projection Plane from Level 1 to Top of Beam, but now it's happnening on some other beams and even columns, even when the beam was set to Top of Beam.
So I have several horizontal beams about 20 feet above the floor. They're all set to Top of Beam for projection plane, all is fine. I also have some columns from the floor coming up to the underside of one beam, which show correctly in the floor plan.
I copied one of the columns over to the end of one of the beams, and then changed the top and bottom offsets so that it became a stub column, with the bottom of the column at the TOP of the beam, and so on. And yet, it was still visible in floor plan! And also after copying the column, one of the beams up above suddenly became visible in plan.
Even though the top of the beam and the bottom of the stub column were already set to the same elevation, I tried attaching the bottom of the column to the beam. That did the trick and made it not visible in my floor plan.
I'm just not understanding what the deal is with all this stuff. I had beams that were correct before, not visible in plan with the projection plane set to Top of Beam, then after copying and moving some elements around, suddenly they became visible. I had to set the projection plane on those beams to some level higher than the top of the beam to get them to disappear in my floor plan.
Anyone have any insight to all this crazy structural visibility stuff?