topic Re: How to create Elevation Line weight in Modeling

How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 05:32:21 GMT

Hello Friends,
I am having some problems with Archicad Elevation System.
To create sense of depth Archicad Elevation use shadow. Throw shadow we understand the distance among elements. Instead of line weight use of shadow is really nice.

But I need to use line weight because other partners (engineers or designers) don't use Archicad. They use Autocad. And they don't appreciate shadow in their Auto cad file. When I send Cad file with shadow they asked me to send the drawing just using line weight.
I know Archicad has a distant marker. I used that already. But I need more than 4 line depth in my Autocad elevation drawing. I am struggling with this for last 2 weeks. I would be really happy if you guys suggest something.

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Christophe Fortineau — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:09:00 GMT

Hello avishiplu,

avishiplu wrote:
When I send Cad file with shadow they asked me to send the drawing just using line weight.

Can you explain"using line weight" about shadows ?

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:49:45 GMT

I mean,
they dont need shadow in drawing.
They need different line weight for object in distance. What we did in hand made drafting. For example, 1 pt for nearest element . 0.8pt for the next one, 0.7, 0.5 etc... O.1 for the farthest element in elevation. Actually we use this technique in drafting class in our architectural schools..

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Stress Co_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:49:36 GMT

Discussed Here:
https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=55372&p=264663

I use the traced Polyline work-a-round method.

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:57:43 GMT

Christophe wrote:
Hello avishiplu,

avishiplu wrote:
When I send Cad file with shadow they asked me to send the drawing just using line weight.
Can you explain"using line weight" about shadows?

Dear Christophe
Thanks for your interest in this issue. Here I attached two images which express my expectation.
Fig-1: Used line weight to show the depth/distance among building elements. ( I want to this).
Fig-2: Used shadow to show the depth/distance among building elements. ( I don't want to use shadow. ).

Sincerely
Avi

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:05:45 GMT

Fig-2: Used shadow to show the depth/distance among building elements. ( I don't want to use shadow. ).

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:16:19 GMT

here is a sample video showing what I am looking for. Although it's for Revit, I just want the output like this.

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Barry Kelly — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:34:53 GMT

The only option we have is the "Marked Distance" option that will give you 2 different line weights.
But that is it.

To get any more than 2 line weights you will have to manually add lines or maybe you can set up multiple elevations and limit the depth of each one.
So where the extent of the first elevation stops the second elevation starts.
Where the second extent stops, the third starts, and so on.
Then you can override the line thickness in each elevation.
Now you just have to stack all of the elevation drawings on top of each other in the layout.
It should work but I think it is a bit messy.

Barry.

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Christophe Fortineau — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:50:44 GMT

Hello avishiplu,

Thanks about these great illustrations. I agree with Barry and I add that your aim seems to be out of graphical representation rules (in France for sure). 😕

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:11:02 GMT

Barry wrote:
The only option we have is the "Marked Distance" option that will give you 2 different line weights.
But that is it.

To get any more than 2 line weights you will have to manually add lines or maybe you can set up multiple elevations and limit the depth of each one.
So where the extent of the first elevation stops the second elevation starts.
Where the second extent stops, the third starts, and so on.
Then you can override the line thickness in each elevation.
Now you just have to stack all of the elevation drawings on top of each other in the layout.
It should work but I think it is a bit messy.

Barry.

Dear Barry Kelly
Thanks for ur detailed explanation. I wish Archicad will add a feature to achieve this result easily. I felt it's necessary for construction documents.

Re: How to create Elevation Line weight

Eric Milberger — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:10:23 GMT

What I did was to take the elevation and draw a shape that is white and transparent about the part of the elevation that I want to fade out.

Have used several shapes of different opaqueness - to give different depth