Hide top or bottom fabrics in view

[Anonymous]

Hi,

is there a way to hide top or bottom fabrics in plan view?? I have to make a slab rebar detailing layout and have trouble differentiating top from bottom fabrics! The only way I found is selecting fabrics sheet by sheet and "hide by element"! If I select "hide by category" all disappears!

Please help!

[N.Oomen · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous,

When you create a fabric sheet area you determine the property "Location" bottom or top.

In your view you can apply filters. When you create a new filter and chose the category structural fabric Areas and Reinforcement you can filter on this particular setting and that way see just one layer, either top or bottom.

Hope this helps you out.

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[Anonymous]

Hi,

can you be more specific!? When I open the filter menu I see this:

Where are top/bottom layers?

Best regards!

PS: Is there a more "elegant" (easier) approach to this topic? What I have is a full 3D reinforced model that has to be shown in 2D layouts! The designer that did it has just drawn all the rebars and fabrics. Now I'm stuck with a mess of lines and meshes that cover one over the other!!! Picking elements one by one and "hiding" in plan view definitely won't help me.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much!