topic Doors, windows and stairs default to orange in Modeling

Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 14:45:07 GMT

The stairs, windows and doors in my archicad project (first one having moved from Revit to Archicad) are orange.

Is this how they should be or is there a way to change the current and any subsequent 2D representation to black?

Am I getting it wrong and that I should have some form of override that deals with the colour (I'm still learning about pen sets, model view options and graphic overrides)?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Re: Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:58:42 GMT

ARCHICAD by default is a much colorful application than Revit. You should learn more about Pen Sets, that would be the easiest way to go from a color representation to a black & white representation.

Re: Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:47:25 GMT

Thanks Laszlo, in Justin trying to gauge what is the best workflow, I'll use pensets to control it

Re: Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:22:23 GMT

Is there a specific reason that they are orange by default?

Re: Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:09:04 GMT

Nope.

Re: Doors, windows and stairs default to orange

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:55:25 GMT

thompsonmp wrote:
Is there a specific reason that they are orange by default?

I've had a read up about pen sets (thanks for pointing me in the right direction Laszlo.

For anyone else with the same query as me, the following video is a brief overview:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zul0Znt69KE

The video and image attached indicate why the stairs are orange, based on the default pen sets organisation

The blogs/ posts from Jared Banks (Shoegnome etc) have been a vital source of information for me and his opinion differs from the default setup for pen sets (https://blog.graphisoftus.com/archicad-education/tips-and-tricks/pen-sets-part-four).

What is everyone's opinion/preference please?