Detail Level Visibility not consistant

[Jason]

I am working on a single family residence project. There is an upper roof and a lower roof. A portion of the lower roof is connected to the upper roof (not sure if this has anything to do with the problem that I am experiencing). I have setup the detail level to fine and the scale setup up at 1/4"=1'-0" (I also tried it at 1/2" = 1'-0"). The upper roof and lower roof property is the same. What is being displayed is the upper roof shows the roof assembly but the lower roof shows only the the total thickness of the assembly (The course display). I am expecting and wanting to show this section in fine detail. What am I missing here? Also want to capture this drawing to show you. How do you capture it in jpeg?

PLEASE HELP!

I thank you in advance.

[beegee]

To capture a jpeg, go File >Export>Image>Visable portion of current window ... save it to a folder, then in Zoog, click "add an attachment" below the post options.

Post the image and one of us can then respond to your problem. Might be an idea to post a jpeg of the plan, showing where the section cut is taken, also.
Maybe it could have something to do with the far clip plane of the section ? ( Click on the section marker and this will appear in blue )

[Jason]

Thanks BeeGee,

Here are the images. The upper roof shows the roof assembly but the lower doesn't.

[beegee]

OK,

1. Try moving the section a bit to see what happens.
2. Cut another section in a different spot through each roof. What does it show ?
3. Double check that the roofs are set to be the same type in both cases. ( Easy enough to select a type that appears similar but had been duplicated prior to changing structure etc )
4. Whats that near the eaves at the lower roof ? ( Hard to see )

[Jason]

Hi Beegee,

Thanks for your input. You are giving me hope here. I did what you asked me to do and I have some images to show you. Sorry for the unclear images. I am still trying to learn to capture the images. Here are the things that I did and they are related to your reference No.

1. Did as per your instruction. See the attacehed sections.
2. Did this as well. See the attached sections.
3. I checked this and it is the same. It had all the different components.
4. I am modeling a fascia board and a gutter at the end of the eaves.

Please have an answer. This is driving me mad.

Thanks again for your help.

Jason

[Jason]

I am unable to post more images. Is there a limit?

[PeterJ]

5.0MB in total and three per post

[Jason]

Thanks Peter.

The post won't do attachements anymore. Why is that?

[Jason]

Beegee,

I was looking at the properties for the upper and lower roofs and I noticed the following in the Parameter settings:

The roof that is properly showing has the "comment" line after fascia depth.

The lower roof not showing properly has "rafter or Truss" after fascia board. And truss has been selected.

There are 13 parameters for the roof and 14 for the lower roof, but it is the same roof.

[Steve_Stafford]

When you create a roof by picking walls the option to use Rafter or Truss is "exposed". When you draft lines instead, the option is not present. I've not seen your images yet but that's a good clue, one roof is using a different rule to define it's shape...most likely. I'll bail out and look at the images.

[Jason]

Steve,

Thanks for your information. I have created a simple 2 level building and created an upper roof using " pick walls" and the upper roof using the "line command". The section shows both wall with fine detail (the way it should). I am going to delete the lower roof along with the fascia and gutter and draw a new roof to see what happens. I going to do this later on this afternoon (5 hours from now). If you have other suggestion please post them before that time.

Thank you and beegee for your help.

Jason

p.s. Forgot to thank PeterJ as well for his information

THanks PeterJ

[rgecy]

I have had this same problem with my sections. If I take a section of roof, one side will show fine detail and the other will not. Very unnerving!

RGecy :?

[Jason]

How did you resolve it. Did you redraw the whole roof. If so, did it work? Because I am thinking of doing this.

Jason

[sbrown]

Is the lower roof set to have a cutoff level. I have seen wierd behavior sim. to this with a cutoff level selected.