topic Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor plan? in Libraries & objects

How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor plan?

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 09:35:43 GMT

Hi there - I am having a tough time figuring out how to have my skylights appear on my floor plan as just a dashed line vs. the whole top view of the skylight w/ the window marker etc.. I just want it to appear as a rectangular outline with a dashed line...thank you for any help/tips!

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor pl

DGSketcher — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:14:36 GMT

I have my ROOF which carries the skylights on a storey above. I then use this as a trace reference and add the required graphic with 2D elements e.g lines, x-box symbol as required.

Unfortunately I think the only way you can display the skylights dashed automatically is to display the roof on the storey below home which then means you see all the roof outlines which can sometimes be distracting.

I'm sure there will be other options including the use of GO's...

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor pl

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:17:41 GMT

Thank you. I was hoping there was a way that the program was intuitive enough to be able to show them automatically somehow...hopefully someone knows how. From searching on here though it doesn't seem like anyone has ever been able to answer this...

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor pl

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:39:33 GMT

In the default Skylight objects it is possible to turn off the 2D of the Skylight altogether so only the outline is visible. See the attached image for the exact field.

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor pl

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:07:58 GMT

Thanks Laszlo - I figured out how to do that but when I do it I still see the outline of all the roof lines (hips, valleys, etc. which muddies up the drawings). Do you know is there a way to see the dashed line of the skylight without seeing the roof outlines too? Thank you!

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor pl

Richard Morrison — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:43:35 GMT

You can do this with Graphic Overrides. Make skylights display with a dashed line and colored pen, and make roofs display with white pen. Adjust marker display in MVO's.

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor plan?

Ivan Myers — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:24:55 GMT

So I'm having a similar problem. However, I'm trying to get a skylight to NOT display its outline on the floor below where its visible. We normally display the roof lines over our floor plans, however, we only want to display a skylight outline if a person could look up and see it. So no second floor skylights displaying on the first floor. Is there a way to do that? I'm planning on changing the skylight in questions lines to white and then using a polyline to indicate its location on the floor above... kind of a hack job I guess.
Any better ideas? Changing the MVO setting for the roof would mess with our other floor plan views to much.
Thanks

Re: How to have skylights appear as dashed lines in floor plan?

Piotr Dobrowolski — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:46:30 GMT

The only way is to tweak (with standard objects) the floor plan cut plane options and set projection to proper floor plane range.

Piotr