topic Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets in Modeling

Alternative Pen colour pallets

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:34:52 GMT

Does anyone know if an alternative standard pen clour pallet is available, as the one that I have in ArchiCAD 9 (straight from the box) is not very good at all. there are 256 colours available, but many are very dark, and not graded in a logical way at all.
Without adjusting each pen, is wondered if there was a means of downloading an alternative pallet, more in line with the 256 pallet from AutoCAD

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

fuzzytnth3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:11:39 GMT

Here's one we use. It has a range of white through to black at various pen thicknesses

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

fuzzytnth3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:12:57 GMT

Here's an AutoCAD version

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

TomWaltz — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:14:33 GMT

You can modify them any way you want using the Options > Attribute settings > Pens & Colors.... menu.

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:52:43 GMT

In my STS templates I have created a color palette organized with colors by tool type and gradients for pen thickness. The colors are designed to help you visualize what type of element you're looking at on screen as well as determine relative pen thickness even when viewing as hairlines.

All is mapped to black or gray pens for printed output in Plotmaker as well. Check my web site for more info.

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:37:36 GMT

THank you all for your time in replying to my post.
I am going to appear very thick now as I'm not sure what to do with the downloads from fuzzytnth3.
Do I just drop them into ArchCAD or do I have to drop them into a specific folder, and then how do i find the pallets in the software to use them?

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

TomWaltz — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:48:55 GMT

If you click "Options > Attribute Manager", you can import the settings into Archicad.

On the Attribute Manager menu, click on the "Pens" tab.

From there, you will have two windows to look at. The left is your current file, the right is whatever you are importing from.

On the right, click "Open" and browse to the .aat file you downloaded. You will now see all the settings in the right-hand window.

Click "Select all", and it will select all the settings on the right. Click "Overwrite" to apply all the settings to your current file.

Click the OK button. Archicad will show you a dialog that basically asks "Are you sure"? If so, click OK, and the pen settings are now imported.

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:09:42 GMT

Tom, good morning, and thank you.
It all seems so simple now.
As I am making the transition from AutoCAD, I am going to start with that pallet and customize as i go.
Cheers

Re: Alternative Pen colour pallets

TomWaltz — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:49:28 GMT

Simon wrote:
It all seems so simple now.

I've said many times over, Archicad is like that. What seems insurmountable can be trivial once you know how.... it's getting that knowledge that's the hard part!