Family Components showing in Elevation behind cutline.

eithan.pillipow
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Family Components showing in Elevation behind cutline.

eithan.pillipow
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I have a floor hosted family made for Barrier free showers and associated components. When placed the grab bars on walls several feet behind the elevation indicator range are showing in the elevation. How can I have my family show only whats being elevated?  See example below of Grab bar showing when not elevated. 

 

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RDAOU
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@eithan.pillipow

 

It depends on how you modeled those grab bar and to/under which family/category you have associated it with. Certain families such as non cuttable families behave that way

 

ie : Balusters; Detail Items; Electrical Equipment; Electrical Fixtures; Lighting Fixtures; Entourage; Furniture; Furniture Systems; Mechanical Equipment; Parking; Planting; Plumbing Fixtures; Specialty Equipment

 

If modeled under any of the above; the grab bar on the left hand side which is supposed to be cut instead of elevated will show as elevated anyways. (see marked image) ... for instance, changing the grab bar to generic, it should behave the way you want it to

 

non cuttable.png

 

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eithan.pillipow
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Why would you ever want a non cuttable family. There are very limited applications for that. You place views where you intend to cut the families and components you place. I shouldn't have to make my washroom accessories generic for the elevations to appear correctly, but I will until autodesk acknowledges this as enabling inaccurate drawings. 

chrisplyler
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I like the possibility of having things be cuttable or non-cuttable, but it should be an Object Styles / Visibility Graphics setting for all categories instead of being hard coded behavior of certain categories.

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thanks!!

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Thank you for explaining this. I've been flabbergasted for hours trying to figure out why a section cut through a piece of furniture wouldn't show a section! I thought I'd lost my mind. I get the reasoning behind why this would be helpful, but it would be nice if it was a simple on/off checkbox function within the family. 

petermolloyjnr
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I run through the fix on my youtube channel! see link below. Hope it helps 

 

https://youtu.be/RCIb_uaKoLc

RDAOU
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7000 views..It must be what inspired you to record that youtube and post it on the same day? 🙂 watch time

 

 

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