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Allow flushed concrete columns inside CMU walls without join lines for architecture plan views.

Allow flushed concrete columns inside CMU walls without join lines for architecture plan views.

Sometimes I have to do some concrete structure proposals as an architect, and some are standard, like flushed concrete columns inside CMU walls. I keep getting issues because on the architecture plan views I do not want to see the columns. But on the construction/structural plans I do want the columns to be visible.

 

The join, unjoin and switch join order tool does not clear all the join lines between the columns and walls, there is always a good amount of columns that remain visible in the architecture plan view, sometimes the wall changes the size of the column and removes its volume (the column's volume). Also, the tool is very exhausting to use because every time I do a change, some join lines may appear or a wall may disjoin from all structural elements causing all the other concrete elements to show up. 

 

Is there a way to only display a monolithic shell for the architecture plan views in a more practical way?

 

Then in order to try to fix it, I go into Visibility graphics and make both walls and columns match. I also set the same material to both elements, but not all elements follow the join order. It gets really frustrating. 

 

My idea is to give the options to override all concrete columns inside walls and remove the join lines for architectural plans where construction is not the main focus. And allow the columns to display in construction plans.  Or provide with a join unjoin switch order tool by category. 

 

Just Allow a clean wall regardless of what is inside of it!  In meanwhile I just set everything, fill patterns, and lines into black, and set them to coarse but, sometimes some architects do not like that style and I struggle with the visibility settings.

 

Like this is just a visibility issue, I think is not that difficult to fix, Anyways thanks for taking the time to read my Idea I appreciate it! 

 

So far the "solutions" I get are:

  • Use the same material
  • join and switch the order (and hope there are no join lines, and the column's volume stays the same)
  • Go full AutoCAD with filled regions over the undesired lines
  • Linework(I ended up erasing part of the wall lines)
  • Dynamo or API
  • Place architecture columns(I end up with issues when placing the structural column)
  • Turn wall and everything inside it into black color. And discard any other elegant graphic display. 

 

 

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Here I tried fixing it wit the visibility graphics option but columns keep interfering. 2.JPG

I tried hiding them. 

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I had to set everything to black.. 

 

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