topic Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below in Modeling

Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

Tincan561 — Tue, 23 May 2023 12:24:01 GMT

I am trying to change the line and pen for a roof shown below.

In the image shown, I have the roof in Outlines Only and am showing a custom setting for one story below without a fill. I do not want the heavy line indicated and wish to change the pen setting.

The Uncut Line settings only affect the home story and above.
I checked Legacy Options for a global setting, but that doesn't work either.

Thank you

Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

David Maudlin — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 14:33:29 GMT

Tincan561:

When you change Floor Plan Display from Outlines Only to Projected with Overhead, two more options will appear in the Outlines panel: Overhead Lines and Overhead Line Pen, which control the overhead appearance. Once these have been adjusted, you can change Floor Plan Display back to Outlines Only. This looks like an interface bug, since these parameters control the appearance of the Roof when set to Outlines Only, but are hidden in the panel (they are not hidden in the Info Box).

David

Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

Tincan561 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:16:01 GMT

Thank you. A perfect answer, very helpful

Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

Brad Elliott — Thu, 25 May 2017 19:00:22 GMT

It appears that in AC20 they are now hidden in the Info Box as well? Just led to an embarrassing waste of an hour.

Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

David Maudlin — Fri, 26 May 2017 13:44:18 GMT

Brad wrote:
It appears that in AC20 they are now hidden in the Info Box as well? Just led to an embarrassing waste of an hour.

They are there, check your Work Environment.

David

Re: Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

Brad Elliott — Fri, 26 May 2017 15:30:48 GMT

Thanks David,
With all the new features in the last couple versions I tried to restart my templates from the ArchiCAD default ones when I just recently started using AC20. I now realize that they have hidden many features that I have turned on over the years. In it's default settings I have found the program to be almost unusable and have been busy turning things back on and re-opening some basic palettes. Now it looks like I need to go through the Info boxes as well.
The interface change and this type of experience has really driven home to me how scattered and disjointed AC's settings system has become. I wish they had fixed that instead of the icons. Maybe AC22.
This does not absolve the fact that even with those settings now turned on in the work environment they do not show up in either the Plan and Section Sub-Panel of the Info Box or the Floor plan and Section Panel in the Roof Settings Box. IMO everything should always be on and visible in the Settings Box. I have attached an image.