Opaque Sills & Thresholds?

[willofmaine 148]

How do I make the sills of windows and the thresholds of doors opaque so that when things are beneath them in Top/Plan View those things are hidden?

Thanks, Will

[CipesDesign 153]

WIll, I believe this is a bug 2011.4. I just played around a little and discovered (by Ungrouping the "high level" door object) that the Threshold was created (coded) using an unfilled poly. Unfortunately I know of no easy way to fix this. You may have to resort to annotating over the offending areas.

[CipesDesign 153]

PS: The Window SIll seems to perform as expected (ie: it is opaque)...

[willofmaine 148]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for confirming what I suspected might be the case. Yes, the window sills do work as expected, which I realized after posting and meant to mention.

Not a huge deal, especially since it's just the doors; I'll add some patches under the thresholds.

I'm only a few days into 2011, but so far liking it a lot!!

Thanks again, Will

[Judah Warshaw 12]

Unfortunately, there is no real way to fix this in 2011 short of covering it up yourself.

But I can confirm that this issue has been resolved in 2012. Please see my post at

http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=160098#Post160098

for a complete listing of Door and Window improvements for Vectorworks 2012.

[willofmaine 148]

Hi Judah,

Excellent, that's good to know. In the meantime I'll just patch them; not a big deal.

Thanks!

Will