TheKitchenAbode

I believe you will need to start from scratch.

This makes the effort even more gratifying, much more important than goofing around with CA. Pleased the efforts by myself and others were fruitful.

This should be report, it is definitely a bug or to be fair an unexpected/intended behavior. The Wall Elevation camera is not properly determining what to include in the view when a room divider is present on the floor to be viewed.

Just played with it a bit more, you only need to drag the bottom of the wall up say 1/16" from the floor and it works. Seems that as long as your invisible divider wall does not touch the floor the Wall Elevation works fine.

I fully understand and appreciate your very valid point. I take on these things as I'm highly intrigued when it comes to problem solving, find it's a great way to learn. Once you solve a problem you rarely forget what you learned. I find it a great way to further understand the software and explore features that I do not commonly use. There are many times where understanding what can't be done helps one to understand what can be done.

Mick - This does the job, draw a standard wall to connect the floating room, delete the room divider, open up a Wall Elevation, click on the wall you just drew and reduce it's height and drag it above the ceiling drywall line, put it up in the joist space. Room looks correct, hall looks correct, Moldings look correct, Wall Elevation is correct and 3D camera views are correct. You can even make it invisible and your views remain intact and the invisible wall definition shows correctly on the correct floor.

Just tried a staircase, same thing happens. If I use a wall elevation on the 1st floor the staircase and railings show, but if I do one on the 2nd floor where the opening room divider is then nothing shows.

I did something similar, tried a door and also made a glass wall so it would not show. These worked but if in the room definition you have moldings turned on then they show up just floating the air.

Thanks but you were on the right track to begin with. Yes, I tried deleting it also. I think Eric's suggestion to just use a Cross Section Elevation and crop is likely the best solution. What's strange is that I've never noticed this before. The same type of room divider is used all the time when a staircase opening is created and the staircase is out in the room. I know on these I usually use a Cross Section Elevation as I want to see how it penetrates the floor above. But even so, I use the Wall Elevation all the time, I'm certain that in some of those the staircase is in the view, never noticed the wall surfaces gone. Will need to check this out a bit further.

Posted too soon, seemed to work but on several retries it's not working.

The only solution I have found is to add another room divider, as long as there are two room dividers present the wall elevation camera works as expected.

Edit: as Mick states it seems to be related to the wall divider. I think this is the issue. The only area that you are having difficulties are the three rooms surrounded by a continuous hall way, as this is an enclosed room floating within another closed room CA has placed an invisible room divider to link these rooms back to the surrounding/enclosing hall way walls. For some reason the wall elevation camera is not recognizing these walls as being there. It sees the furnishing and all of the surrounding/enclosing hall way walls. If I draw a solid wall to that across the hall way then the wall elevation camera sees the walls. No idea as to how to fix it but it seems to be related to the room divider. Edit: I tried a new blank plan just four exterior walls with a square room floating in the middle. Wall Elevation camera did not see the walls.

No problem here, just tried a few, I use the Microsoft Edge browser and all is good.

My recommendation here is that if this is to be your primary work system then you need to accept the reality that lighter ultrabook laptops are not likely going to be your best choice. You really should only consider desk top type laptops that have desktop processors and higher end discrete graphics cards, the tradeoff for this performance will be size and weight, there is really no way around this reality. For myself I use two systems, a desktop for my primary work and then a lightweight ultrabook type laptop for client presentations. This works for me as I do not do design work during client visits, the ultrabook just needs to be sufficient to show the designs and other support pics and documentation.

Michael is correct, it's actually the "Hang Floor Platform Above on Wall" that is the Culprit.

Confirmed, that's what's happening. I made a basic 4 exterior wall room, divided with some interior walls, placed a ceiling fixture and all was fine. I then ballooned one wall and the fixture moved up.

I think that's the problem, it is using the ballooned walls when calculating the ceiling height. If you do an elevation you can see that the fixtures are locating exactly in line with those walls minus the 1/2" ceiling drywall.

Here's a pic.

Not quite sure but if you delete a shed roof plane you can see that the ceiling plane in the rooms is lower than the wall height. Seems that the fixtures are in line with the wall height. Did you make some adjustment that has the ceiling lower than the actual walls top height? Edit - I'm referring to the exterior wall heights versus the interior room wall heights. Seems that it is using the higher exterior walls to define the ceiling height versus that of the individual rooms within.

There are three recessed cans located in front of the window across from the patio fans. they are up above the ceiling plane. Just looking at them now.

That's a relief, was wondering if you need to change your sunglasses to prescription glasses.

Also the pic to the right shows a model of the wall and the assigned wall types in the correct order.

Under Pony wall it states "Lower Wall Type", the one above is the top one.

Yeah, they had a 50/50 chance on that one, some wish the insertion to be below the existing while others expect it to be above. Maybe they should have added a check box "Insert Above" or "Insert Below". That would have also acted as a warning flag as to what was going to happen.

Mick - I think the assumption is that when one converts an existing wall to a pony wall that one wishes to add another wall on top of the original(existing). As such the original wall becomes the lower portion and a new upper wall is placed on top.