topic Re: Not Updating Pens in Plotmaker in Project data & BIM

Not Updating Pens in Plotmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:28:51 GMT

This is in addition to my previous post re: gray scale & more.

First I have changed a pen in my hatch in Archicad, and saved it, but when I open it in plotmaker it is updating the pen change. I have told it to update, and I have closed it and opened it again, and I am still getting no update. I deleted one of my views and imported it again and then it changed. Anyone know why?

Also;
When I am in plot maker, if i go under "all pens and colors" can't I just change all the pens I used there to black and the ones I want to be grey to grey? I use pens 1 through 9. I want 1-6 to be black and 7-9 to be grey, so that is what i tell them to do. It doesn't change the output.
If I save it and close it, all the pens in the dialogue box show up white, but they hold their pen weights that I assigned to them.

I thought doing this and plotting/printing it in grey scale would give me black lines and grey lines.
This is irritating me. Can anyone explain?

C:\Program Files\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD 9\Help\ArchiCAD\Files\wwhelp\wwhimpl\js\html\wwhelp.htm

Also at this link in ArchiCAd help, it has some info, but I dont understand it.
Project attributes? Does any one know about this?

Re: Not Updating Pens in Plotmaker

Anonymous — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:50:39 GMT

Jesikuh123 wrote:
When I am in plot maker, if i go under "all pens and colors" can't I just change all the pens I used there to black and the ones I want to be grey to grey?

Yes. Just make sure in Options/Preferences/Drawing Attributes you have uniform pens & colors for drawings and book ticked (see attached)

Re: Not Updating Pens in Plotmaker

Anonymous — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:52:51 GMT

Okay, I am answering my own questions, and I am doing it on here, so that if other peopel have these problems, they will have answers.

My pens were not updating in PM because my drawing had become unlinked, I relinked it in drawing usage in the navigator of PM.

I set all my pens that I want grey tobe grey in PM, and all that i want to be black to black in PM.
and used the same weights and numbers i used in archi cadd.
in drawing settings attributes updates and rules, , i went to custom, and i unchecked pens a colors to update.Then in attributes i made the colors black and grey. and TA DA! i have printing in grey and black like i want.