Orthographic View Not Showing Intersecting Edges

[nboone34]

My pipe penetration into this concrete wall is not showing as desired on my orthographic view.  I've messed with the visual styles and the shade plot settings.  I've also changed my DISPSILH and OBSCUREDLTYPE with no success.  I'm running out of ideas on how to fix this.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[h_eger]

Did you also design the wall penetration?
If not, you will not get any penetration curves.

[nboone34]

It is an xref. I didn't add holes to the structure.  So it won't show the interfering edge between the piping and the wall? 

[rajendra.prajapat]

@nboone34please add your xref dawing bu 3d model selection during ortographic generation.

[Shambler]

Hi @nboone34 

you need to intersect the walls by cutting with simple cylinders because the surface of the walls are just surfaces between the lines of the primitive. 

In the Ortho Screenshot below: one wall with Intersection, the other wall without 

[nboone34]

Thanks for the idea.  That is the current workflow I'm following with my drawings.

[nboone34]

I was hoping to avoid spending time subtracting cylinder holes for each pipe penetration.  Interesting how it knows to show the intersecting edges of your walls but not between the pipe and the wall.....?

[Shambler · Accepted solution]

The answer is easy.

Script based content, like pipes, would deployed as surface - not as volume model. 

So you cant intersect a wall (3D volume) with a pipe (script, surface). 

Its important to get piping parts as surface to keep the drawing size low.

I know a lot of cases where users build most parts of their piping material with 3d volumes in the catalog editor and let the sizes of their drawings grow. 

BUT: There is a way how you could produce a improved visual experience with intersections: 

1. export your drawings with "EXPORTTOAUTOCAD" into a simple Autocad File

         - your piping material will change to 3d volume models after this step 

2. copy all pipes who intersect walls at the same place

3. intersect the wall via substraction

4. create a ortho block via "FLATSHOT" 

Otherwise: stay in your intelligent model and substract the intersections maually

Its a way .. but not the PLANT3D Way to create "intelligent" Arrangement.  

[nboone34]

Thanks for the explanation and background on the different types of 3D objects. These are definitely options to think about....