Important notes on openings on independent layers

Options, components and architecture, special architectural settings

Normally, openings like recesses in walls and slabs or window and door openings get the same layer as the element into which they are inserted. You can use this option to specify whether a separate, independent layer can be assigned to these openings.

This way, you can hide recesses in walls and slabs or window and door openings. All you need to do is assign an element-independent layer to these openings and set it to Hidden, frozen. Openings are usually displayed in working drawings used on the building site; however, they are not included in submission plans or presentations created for clients. You can still derive both working drawings and application plans from the same 3D model. However, there are some particular issues to bear in mind.

Note: Only the system administrator can make these project-specific settings.

Approach

Openings on separate layers behave as follows (using a slab recess and a wall recess as examples):

The recess and the wall/slab were assigned different layers. There is nothing unusual about the display:
If you now hide the wall and slab layers, the recesses will still be visible:
If you now activate the wall and slab layers and hide the recess layer, the recesses will no longer be visible but the ‘hole’ in the wall will still remain visible (particularly in isometric view):
Hiding these ‘holes’ involves the following two steps:
- Select the Options, Components and architecture page, Miscellaneous area, click the Special button and check that the Components on hidden layers are not to interact with components on visible layers option is active.
- Then carry out Restore 3D View:

Note the following with layouts:

When you place the same drawing file in a layout without recesses (e.g. submission plan) and in a different layout with recesses (e.g. working drawing), you need to make the relevant settings and perform Restore 3D View before you print each layout.