Display Structural Framing above Cut Plane in Plan View

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From what I understand, a structural framing element cannot be shown in the plan view if it's above the cut plane. In a situation where I cannot change the height of the cut plane to match the height of the structural framing element, is there any good workaround besides the few options below?

1) Duplicate the element and change the family type to generic model.

2) Create localized plan region for every structural element that needs to be shown.

There was a post explaining the need for this created years ago at 

Cut Planes and View ranges for multi-discipline views - Autodesk Community

but it did not garner enough support and has since been archived by the community manager.

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Go to floor plan where you want to see them, set underlay so beams are visible, use Linework tool to click on them all, turn off underlay.

Use hide/isolate, create temporary levels if needed to help yourself easily set underlay.

[aec058RA5Q]

Apologizes, I didn't know the forum doesn't inform you if there is a reply and you would have to login and check for updates manually. Setting the underlay didn't make the structural framing / beams show up in the floor plan (in both mechanical and coordination view discipline) but changing the height of the cut plane, using the linework tool, and resetting the cut plane worked. The method isn't perfect since it doesn't show the cut pattern of concrete beams but it works pretty well when my structural framing / beams are just unistrut channels.