Hatches on Counter tops

[Anonymous]

I have several wall types that I have been able to add hatches to successfully. This is my first time trying to add one to an out of the box counter top wall type. Our office standard is to have a hatch as shown in the screenshot, but when I try to set this - nothing shows? I've tinkered with all sorts of settings to try to get this to show and I'm at a loss. Any suggestions?

Thank you!

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

The problem here is that the hatch components you are modifying only display when the Wall is cut by the cut plane.  I tried turning on the Surface Hatch component in the Material Definition applied to the out-of-the-box Wall Style for a casework counter top, but had no luck with that, either.  I was able to get what you wanted by setting a style-level display override and overriding the cut plane.

At that point, I had been working in ACA 2014 and made so many changes that I thought I should start from scratch, and chose to do so in 2015.  The out-of-the-box Imperial Casework-36 (Counter) Wall Style was already set up with such an override, so all I had to do was turn on the Shrink Wrap Hatch component and apply the desired hatch to it.  The attached image shows all of the relevant settings, as well as a screen capture of the end result.

One thing to note is that overriding the cut plane and locating it to cut the Case - Counter component will also activate the Shrink Wrap component, if turned on.  This was already turned off in the 2015 content's style-level override, and if you do not want the outline of your counter to plot with the same lineweight as the outline of your actual-wall Walls, you should verify that is also the case for your Wall Style, once you set the cut plane override.