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billjahn

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I'm creating a commercial building, so I can learn how to place beams, OWSJs, columns, etc. What I have stumbled across is that, once I create a section view, I can see the members behind the forefront members. I cannot tell what is in the background or foreground without thinking about it. I've tried switching between Architectural Section and Structural Section as well as taken a look at VG overrides but have seen nothing that controls this parameter. The most basic function is the Visual Style options menu, but I've toggled between them to see if it was not on Hidden Line. The only thing I can think of as causing this is in the Families themselves. For example, elements such as beams behind a girder are tailing into it and represented as hidden lines or a girder attached to a column on the opposite side of it are visbleI. The only thing I've ben able to do is reduce the extents of the section cut. I haven't seen any questions relating to this, so does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?

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To clarify this further this does not happen in an architectural section with walls, etc. Objects in the background are hidden unless they extend past an object in the foreground and no hidden lines appear representing an element behind the object that is meant to be seen.

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try changing the view discipline. The Discipline setting determines how different object categories display in discipline-specific views. Also, select Coordination to show all object lines as solid without half tones. See View Properties.

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Thanks! I switched the discipline to Architectural. I'm guessing this is a system setting and any attributes cannot be fooled with. As for Coordination, I took a look at Help which led me to View Properties under the Views Template for Structural Section. The closest I came to that term was the sub-category Display Model which was set to Normal vs. Halftone, so I figure this was correctly set to begin with.

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Bill

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