topic Archicad Sections and Cut lines in Project data & BIM

Archicad Sections and Cut lines

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 11:11:51 GMT

I'm a relatively new Archicad 12 user and have a question.

I'm used to Autocad where we setup lineweights via layers (probably not the best way but not important), so since moving to Archicad 12 I've had a real problem wrapping my head around pensets. I have yet to find a penset setup that doesnt produce thick bleeding lines from one scale to another.

My question is this, is it possible to globally set the cut-line pen for all elements in section? It is unbelievably tedious to make a section, print it at proper scale, and then change every element cut line individually.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

Re: Archicad Sections and Cut lines

Laura Yanoviak — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:56:39 GMT

rspierenburg wrote:
My question is this, is it possible to globally set the cut-line pen for all elements in section? It is unbelievably tedious to make a section, print it at proper scale, and then change every element cut line individually.

Globally, "no" -- my Marker, "yes" -- see screenshot. Although we don't use this setting -- we usually set Cut Pen by element.

Pens and Pensets take some experimentation. We have two sets for black and white output: "Layout" and "Layout_HALF" -- Layout is for scales 1/8" and greater, Layout_HALF is for 1/8" scale and lower (Penset at 1/8" scale depends on the complexity of the plan).