Structural Slab and Turndown merge materials

[dbroad]

If an architectural floor slab is drawn and turned down floor slab edge is added, then, if the materials for both slab and edge are the same, there is no dividing line.

If a structural foundation slab is drawn and a turned down floor slab edge is added, the components have a bold separator line between them regardless of material.  Is this by design or is it an error?  Should I just avoid using slab foundations for slab on grade floors?

[Anonymous]

It doesn't appear to be by design nor error. Unless lack of knowledge is an error. 😉

To get rid of the line it is important to match one's materials the following two ways. 1) Make sure the material is exactly the same and 2) Add the same Assembly Code to each elements' type properties. It's a neat workaround and we get rid of those sorts of lines all the time this way. Additionally, a further tool to help in the same sorts of situations is to use the Linework Tool to make the line invisiable.

There is no production drawing convention which states there should or shouldn't be a line there to the best of my knoweldge.  

edit:spelling!

[dbroad]

Thanks for the reply.  Attached is a sample project that demonstrates the problem.  Both structural parts have the same assembly code and material. Compare the architectural slab cleanup to the structural slab cleanup.  Can you fix it?

[Anonymous]

Can't give as full as an account as I would normally like but I was able to graphically remove the lines in R2016 with the Linework Tool.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Use the join tool.

[dbroad]

Thanks guys.  The join tool did it.  So simple.  Don't know why I didn't think of trying that.