Section Viewport cleaning

[Gary C]

How do I clean up an elevation viewport of a house to make it look. I used the create Section Viewport command to create my exterior elevations but it shows addition lines for the total roof thickness and wall lines where I had to split a wall to have that section of wall lower. The roof shows the top, the line for the rake fascia and the line under that for the total roof thickness. In a normal view you would not see the bottom roof thickness line as this would be behind the gable wall?????????????

[CipesDesign]

Hi Gary, I'm not sure how others are creating elevations, but here's how I've been doing it:

1) Create a LAYER LINK of all the model layers req'd for the elev.

2) Set the view to FRONT

3) Create a VP of the rendered view of the Linked Model (usually I use OPEN GL or FQRW)

4) Go to the sheet layer and select the VP (you just created) and then DUPLICATE it in place (so you now have two identical VP's "stacked" one on top of the other)

5) Select the duplicate VP and change the rendering mode to HIDDDEN LINE.

6) Click on ADVANCED PROP's and thicken up the HL Line Weight.

7) Do any additional line work in the annotations of the HL VP.

8) Repeat steps 3-7 for the three building sides.

Hope that helps :-)

[Ramon PG]

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Originally posted by Gary C:

... and wall lines where I had to split a wall to have that section of wall lower.

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Seems there is no solution for that in 12.0. I hope 12.1 solves it.