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With a slab, the components and the view in 2D plan is controlled seperately:

- In the components dialog of the slab, you can set the components attributes. These will show in 3D and in sections.

- The class and/or attributes of the slab as a whole tells VW how to show the slab in 2D/Plan view. So set the attributes of the slab to a solid fill, or give it a different class.

For this reason, and also because other objects react this way, we have sometimes 2 classes for the same thing, but the one is for the 3D and section attributes, and the other is for the 2D representation, like: 'Slab - Tile finish' and Slab - 'Tile finish VA'. Those classes needs te be together because we set the texture and the tile fill that belongs together.

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Vectorworks needs the ability to define two sets of attributes for all objects:

- View attributes.

- Section attributes.

The section attributes should only be visible when an object is actually in section.

Vectorworks also needs to be smarter so that in Plan views the correct wall view shows in each context. The user should be able to define the height of the theoretical 'plan cut plane' and walls should represent themselves accordingly:

- If the top of the wall is below the 'plan cut plane' then the Wall view attributes should be used.

- If the 'plan cut plane' intersects the wall then the Wall section attributes should be used.

- If the bottom of the wall is above the 'plan cut plane' the wall should show in plan as dashed with no fill.

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Vectorworks needs the ability to define two sets of attributes for all objects:

- View attributes.

- Section attributes.

The section attributes should only be visible when an object is actually in section.

Vectorworks also needs to be smarter so that in Plan views the correct wall view shows in each context. The user should be able to define the height of the theoretical 'plan cut plane' and walls should represent themselves accordingly:

- If the top of the wall is below the 'plan cut plane' then the Wall view attributes should be used.

- If the 'plan cut plane' intersects the wall then the Wall section attributes should be used.

- If the bottom of the wall is above the 'plan cut plane' the wall should show in plan as dashed with no fill.

Really nice idea! Only the last thing that for walls above they show with no fill, dashed line. I always represents beams and walls above as a dashed line with a semi-transperant fill. I think VW needs to be able to do this too, or just let us setup the tree view attributes.

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