topic Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad in Modeling

Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:17:55 GMT

Hello there.

I am slowly moving from Allplan to ArchiCad (13)and I have to say that I am quite impressed with ArchiCad. I have one question (one for today). How does one draw a fill/pattern line? IE: red application boundary.

Many thanks

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Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:10:15 GMT

Sometimes the really basic questions are the hardest to answer, not sure exactly what you are asking:

To draw a 2D line, I would choose the polyline tool from the toolbar, then click on the settings to access the pen color and style. Then draw. If this doesn't make sense to you, then click on the help button, find polyline and then click on the "Working in Tool Settings Dialog Boxes". That link explains the common features of working with AC "tools".

Please work through the interactive training guides, available via the help menu. Start with Essentials, the others are all good. Do not just watch the tutorial, open the related files and work though each action as they demonstrate them. Also, stop and dig deeper, look into the other tool options that may not have been used in that step, but you see as being available. I notice that the passive learners don't seem to get much out of the tutorials, but they are good - if you work it.

Snap
PS BTW, please go to the profile area and create a signature that describes your AC versions and the operating system. This is what you see at the bottom of my post.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:58:40 GMT

Thank you Snap for your answer.
I spent the last weekend in front of the computer and I can now say that I am able to draw a basic house in Archicad. Back to my question. I dont know about US but here in Ireland, when you apply for a planning permission, you will have to outline the application site with a thick red line. In AutoCad i can draw a Pline, in Allplan I have the option of using a fill line. I am sure that there must be an option in ArchiCad to create a pattern line or better said a line on which I can apply a pattern. Any idea how can I do that??

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:46:31 GMT

Not sure how wide you need it but,
one way is to make a custom pen extra wide.
Options>Element Attributes>Pens and colors.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:58:44 GMT

Something like this.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:47:25 GMT

I would place a fill pattern of type solid in red. Then offset fill whatever thickness you want and subtract fill 2 from fill 1. OR use a fill of 75, 50 or 25%. The subtract offset is a magic wand + SpaceBar sequence.

Snap

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Dwight — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:56:33 GMT

ANOTHER WAY:

Make a custom line type using five parallel lines closely spaced.

When used with an adequately fat pen, the five lines merge into one fat line.

The benefit of this is dashes without rounded ends.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Dwight — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:05:37 GMT

Short segments displaced diagonally make diagonal dashes

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:26:13 GMT

Nice tip Snap.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:01:32 GMT

Thank you all. I'll give it a try.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:15:29 GMT

hello, sorry to bother you, but i have a question, how do i substract or cut out from a fill? for example to cut around a window in 2d... i did it once by mistake and can't find to do it again...
sorry again to bother you, i truly am a beginner :-<

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Link — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:23:44 GMT

With a fill selected, you can simply draw another fill inside the selected one and it will create a hole.

Or you can use the 'Subtract from Polygon' pet palette option. Just click on the edge of the fill to make this appear. Either way, your current geometry method will determine the shape of the subtracted part, so check it in your Info Box.

Unless you magic wand of course.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Fill or Pattern Line in Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:41:36 GMT

thank you!!! i managed with the second method and worked really fine!