topic Re: Color Floor Plans in Modeling

Color Floor Plans

Jim — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:06:59 GMT

Hello everyone,

I started my first project in Archicad a few days ago and have found it to be difficult to learn in certain ways. Right now I am trying to create a floor plan in color for this project and all future projects. I am drawing a simple raised ranch that is turning out to not be so simple.

I think I may have jumped the gun and went about this the wrong way. As you can see in the screenshots provided, the floor plan has color but I achieved this by adjusting surfaces and overriding surfaces in the "Floor Plan And Section" settings for each item. I noticed this only affected my first floor plan colors so now I have to redo it for all other floors. I doubt this is the most effective way to go about this, so any tips on how to reset everything and do it the correct way would be greatly appreciated.

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Color Floor Plans

Barry Kelly — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:27:16 GMT

Have your building materials set up with the colours you want, then when you use them in an element like a composite wall, they will already have those colours.

It also helps you to easily recognise what materials you have used.

Slabs can have cover fills, or you can use colours zones.

Objects you can amend the line and fill colours - set up favourites if they are not the default of the object.

You can still change individual element settings as you seem to be doing now.

And then you have the Graphic Override options, that will let you override the files and pens and line styles of particular elements at a global (whole model) scale.

But note Graphic Overrides affect the entire element, not for example and individual skin of a wall, it will change the entire wall.

Barry.

Re: Color Floor Plans

Lingwisyer — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:30:57 GMT

For you floors, enable "Cover Fills - Use Fill from Surface" then they will use what ever fill you have asigned the the top surface. You can select multiple at once by selecting the Slab tool, then pressing Select All, opening the Slab Settings and enabling the option. Just do not modifiy any settings which may vary between your selections that you do not want the same between all of them

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For the walls, they come from the colours and fills that you asign to the Building Material that you have selected for them.

Ling.