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Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:28:43 GMT

I have an old file that was working and now one of the rooms has disappeared in view and will not show up unless I draw a wall in the middle of the room. Very strange. I'm hoping there is an easy answer for this mystery.

Here is a link to the video that shows what is happening....

https://youtu.be/ieQdKn1rjCY

Thanks,

Marla

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

barthbradley — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:41:16 GMT

Change the Room's Upper Limit Offset.

That work?

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:08:57 GMT

Nope, nothing yet...

https://youtu.be/btzuhQn-5Eg

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

barthbradley — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:13:43 GMT

Hidden in the View by Element?

...Reveal Hidden Elements

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:18:23 GMT

Checked that too...why would it show up when I draw a wall...?

https://youtu.be/2zHjw3Odh0w

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

barthbradley — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:41:24 GMT

Boy, this one is a head-scratcher. What about deleting the Room and recreating it? What happens? Same thing?

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

ToanDN — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:45:55 GMT

Can you to share the file?

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:32:24 GMT

Replace room...warning re visibility.

Here's the video and the file. It has to be the visibility in the floor plan...still why show up when I draw a wall? Also it happens in all the plans....if you look at the sheet.

https://youtu.be/x8q7ucyonVo

Beats me, I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks for your time.

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

barthbradley — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:46:21 GMT

I was able to correct it by working through and resolving Warnings.

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:49:01 GMT

Great!

I'll look through them as well.

Thank you.

Best,

Marla

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

RDAOU — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:10:23 GMT

@htimsm

Fix the Bounding walls at the WC/Half Bath..

either use one wall (and use an insert for the opening)
or make both Not bounding and extend the Room separation
Or use one wall which is bounding + edit its profile to create the Opening

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

barthbradley — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:56:47 GMT

Yep. Warning number 16. 😉

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

RDAOU — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:11:24 GMT

@barthbradley wrote:
Yep. Warning number 16. 😉

Not really...don't think it is even related. the 2 walls of the Half bath has no warning...I simply placed a section and noticed the below...too many bounding elements (none overlapping)...simplifying that spot fixed the issue

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

htimsm — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:18:51 GMT

Just a quick question. Any ideas why it resolved when I drew a wall in the middle of the room?

Re: Room appearing and disappearing when wall drawn in center...mysterious

RDAOU — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 05:28:27 GMT

@htimsm wrote:
Just a quick question. Any ideas why it resolved when I drew a wall in the middle of the room?

The WHY should not be important at this point 🙂 what matters is the bigger picture, the HOW?

Although the 2 walls causing the issue did not have any registered errors, you still managed to solve the issue as suggested by going through the whole list of errors without knowing which or if any caused the issue.

If that is what gets the users to clean up that warning list regularly, this is what I will be doing 😄 force a room to magically disappear