topic Re: Custom Lines in Modeling

Custom Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:04:45 GMT

I am wondering if any one knows how I can make a custom line that uses letters, i.e. a water line with a "w" spaced evenly? Any help would be great. thanks.

Re: Custom Lines

Richard Morrison — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:19:40 GMT

The easiest way is to modify one of the similar lines out of the AC template file. Using Options>Element Attributes>Line Types, you can call up one of the lines with a letter in it (there's one with "CW" in it that will save some time) and use the "copy line components" into a floor plan, then modify, copy, and paste back into a new line type, and adjust "gap" to be zero. Check your reference manual if you get stuck.

Re: Custom Lines

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:26:45 GMT

This old article may help:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/Creating%20Special%20Line%20Types?highlight=%28CategoryJapanese%29

Note that you cannot 'explode' text in plan in ArchiCAD. So, you'll either have to draw your text with linework, or you can do some dwg tricks, convert in an external program, etc. (You can use the 3D text object and capture the linework from the 3D window, also. But, depending on the font, the letter(s) may have an awfully lot of line segments.) Keep the strokes for the letter(s) very simple.

As Richard said, take a look at the CW, SS, etc line types that are in the base template.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Custom Lines

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:06:51 GMT

Thank you for the responses, I will play with them over the weekend.

Re: Custom Lines

Stress Co_ — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:50:36 GMT

Karl wrote:
(You can use the 3D text object and capture the linework from the 3D window, also. But, depending on the font, the letter(s) may have an awfully lot of line segments.)

Dan Kunschik posted a 3D text method HERE.

When I use the method Richard recommended, I type the text, turn on trace and then trace the text with lines and arcs (splines won't be pasted into the line type). This way you can create a close copy a preferred font.