Dom9362 Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 I have been using the extract surface tool to make hatched wall elevations in an external elevation viewport. (Nice feature). However I am unable to get the hatches to display when using the cut section viewport, for example a sectional elevation of a tiled internal wall. Am i missing something or does the cut section viewport not display planar surface hatches. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted July 28, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 28, 2011 Do you have Display Planar Objects checked on the Viewport? Quote Link to comment
Dom9362 Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hi Tamsin The Section Viewport OIP doesn't have an option to display planar objects - that I can find. Whereas the Viewport OIP does. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted July 29, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hi Sorry - missed that this was a section viewport. If you edit the advanced properties of the section viewport and click on Attributes, you can choose to display the original attributes of objects for the cut plane. But your extracted surface will not be the cut plane. you should be able to see the objects beyond the cut plane, if you have chosen to do so. You can choose if these objects should show their original attributes.. Hope that helps Quote Link to comment
Dom9362 Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 Hi Tamsin Thanks for the help but. To experiment I have set up two viewports side by side, one a Viewport of the model in elevation with display planar objects enabled. The other a Section Viewport with display objects beyond viewport enabled. On the model I have created a hatched surface object. In the Viewport (elevation) this displays as intended but in the Section Viewport it will not display. In both viewports class visibilities and overides are set identically and the depth range of the section is set to infinite I have tried your suggestion of making adjustments in the advanced properties palette eg use original fill for objects beyond the section plane to no avail. Looks like yet another thread for the wish list. Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 It seems that the reason is somehow related to the omission of a Wireframe Rendering option for the Section Viewport. It's probably more a Bug Submit rather than a Wish List item. Quote Link to comment
bc Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Dom9362, Have you tried the Cut 3D Section command to see if the hatch is retained? May be a workaround.... Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Tamsin Slatter Posted July 29, 2011 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted July 29, 2011 Or you could try placing your Section Viewport on a Design Layer (a Design Layer Section Viewport) and then creating a Sheet Layer Viewport that includes your Section Viewport. Quote Link to comment
Dom9362 Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 Thanks for the help Tamsin and bc. None of those ideas work. However there is a workaround for anyone who encounters this problem If you fill the extracted surface with a hatch from the Modify>Hatch menu command (this will result in a group of lines rather than a fill) and then convert the group with Convert>Convert to 3d polygons. The hatch will then display in the section viewport. However as it is now a group of polygons the attribute mapping tool cannot be used with consequences for workflow if the hatch needs to be revised later. The fact that a hatched polygon (outline or fill) cannot be seen in the section viewport is surely an omission that should be addressed in the next SP if anyone from NNA is reading Regards Quote Link to comment
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