topic Re: White fills show up grey in Modeling

White fills show up grey

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:49:24 GMT

I'm not sure what exactly has happened here. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything, but I must have done something.changed some setting by mistake, because all of my white pens show up grey. I'm using Archicad 12, Student Education version on Windows XP. I've attached a screen shot. As you can see my pen set says the fill is white, but like the brick workabove, the highlighted concrete fill is showing up with a grey background. Anyone know whats happened here?

Re: White fills show up grey

owen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:05:18 GMT

I was going to say check you haven't accidentally turned on Uniform Pen overrides in the Section tool but just noticed there are some green pens at the edge of the screenshot so that can't be it (assuming this is a pure model cut, no manual lines)

Re: White fills show up grey

owen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:09:15 GMT

and the correct answer is:

Automatic Pen Color Visibility Adjustment

go to Options > Work Environment > More Options and make sure it is unchecked (second from the top). This setting basically temporarily overrides any pens that would not be visible due to the screen background color (so white on white or black on black)

Re: White fills show up grey

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:12:06 GMT

Perfect!

Thank you Owen..
I have no Idea how that got checked, but it was..
Problem solved.

Thanks so much for your help.

Re: White fills show up grey

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:57:37 GMT

That was DRIVING ME NUTS for two days!!! Thanks so much for the info. I know the post is old, but still helped me out.

Re: White fills show up grey

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:47:09 GMT

You're my savior! I was about to hit the screen with a hammer. Cheers!
(Works for AC 21 too)

Re: White fills show up grey

Barry Kelly — Tue, 01 May 2018 01:32:49 GMT

I find it best to not use a pure white background (or black).
I set mine to a pale green (like the old manual drawing boards for those that remember them).
That way I can see all pen colours including white.
Depending on the pen colours you use you can to adjust the background colour to suit what works for you.

Barry.

Re: White fills show up grey

Cosmin Ghioanca — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:37:40 GMT

owen wrote:
and the correct answer is:

Automatic Pen Color Visibility Adjustment

go to Options > Work Environment > More Options and make sure it is unchecked (second from the top). This setting basically temporarily overrides any pens that would not be visible due to the screen background color (so white on white or black on black)

Give this guy a beer!

Re: White fills show up grey

Anonymous — Thu, 21 May 2020 08:27:11 GMT

thankkkkkkkk you so much I was also about to quit architecture...

Re: White fills show up grey

Rene Pahlavan — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:46:26 GMT

Update for anyone else using this thread:

On my AC 25 US this option is under "Work Environment" --> "On Screen Options" (fourth from the top). Not found in "More Options".

Re: White fills show up grey

Josh Verran — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:03:06 GMT

Just had the same issue occur, had me stumped.

I have a suspicion that the cause of the issue was me opening a DWG through the File > Open menu.

There was a dialogue that came up which I rushed through "OKing", perhaps there was something there that caused the Work environment to change.

Re: White fills show up grey

Barry Kelly — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:43:33 GMT

@Josh Verran wrote:

There was a dialogue that came up which I rushed through "OKing", perhaps there was something there that caused the Work environment to change.

No, I don't think so.

You can only change Work Environment settings by going into the WE and changing them yourself, or applying a different WE.

I think the default WEs have this option to automatically adjust pen colour set as active.

Barry.