Invisible Wall

[MississippiMims]

Anybody know how to make an invisible wall that wont show up in the floorplan?  I cant get rid of the outline of the wall and this has been confusing for some framers.  

[DavidJPotter]

Once you are through creating invisible walls, open "Display Options"  while in your plan view and uncheck (Turn off) the "Walls, Invisible" layer. Then they will still be there but no longer visible in plan views until or unless you manually turn that layer back on.

 

DJP

[MississippiMims]

I had tried changing the fill in the wall options.   The only problem with turning off the invisible walls layer in the Display Options is I still need the invisible walls for the porches to show up in the floorplan.  I'm trying to isolate this particular invisible wall.

[Rookie65]

Change the line style to "blank" in the default for the walls you don't want to show. When you open up the line styles, you will see one row that has nothing in it.

[solver]

14 minutes ago, MississippiMims said:

The only problem with turning off the invisible walls layer in the Display Options is I still need the invisible walls for the porches to show up in the floorplan.  I'm trying to isolate this particular invisible wall.

 

It's really helpful to include info like this when you ask a question. 

 

I'd use a mask to cover the wall.

[solver]

6 minutes ago, Rookie65 said:

Change the line style to "blank" in the default for the walls you don't want to show. When you open up the line styles, you will see one row that has nothing in it.

 

I believe the dashed lines are controlled by the Layer. Even if you set a wall to have all blank lines, you still get the dashed lines when you make it invisible.

 

In Chief, you can place the wall on a unique layer and control the lines, setting them to blank and the wall will not show.

[MississippiMims]

Keith, were you able to make the "blank" line style work?  When I tried it would not go away.

 

Eric, would you place a mask on the layout sheet or is this something that's available for the plan?

[solver]

9 minutes ago, MississippiMims said:

would you place a mask on the layout sheet or is this something that's available for the plan

 

Should work either place.

[Rookie65]

No, I didn't try it, and Eric is correct. I would do the mask on the plan sheet using a polyline and making the lines blank and the infill white. When it's put on the layout, it may creat a blank area for any other pages put over that area. Invisible walls used to work nicely when they were just a single line.

[MississippiMims]

Thanks Eric.  Does Chief Architect have more layer control so that I can have text on different layers as well as CAD lines on different layers?

[MississippiMims]

Thanks for the try Keith.  

[Rookie65]

Sure. The polyline does work with the solid white infill