topic Pens suddenly ALL BLACK in Modeling

Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

DataChris — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:08:32 GMT

ALL my pens in ALL my stories (etc) have suddenly gone BLACK.

I'm working in AC11 and figure this is a display option I wasn't aware of but I can't figure out how to turn it off so I can see the actual pen colors. (this happened after installing the newest lib updater).

Any advice??

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Dwight — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:47:30 GMT

Your pens have passed the audition for the New Zealand rugby team.

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Rod Jurich — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:43:25 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Your pens have passed the audition for the New Zealand rugby team.

Priceless DA

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

DataChris — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:45:21 GMT

Ok a bit funny but does anyone have a real answer?

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

JaredBanks — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:18:42 GMT

Have all your pen sets turned black as well (or are they still okay)?

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:14:24 GMT

Try checking the Forum 😉

or try :

options > Work Environment >More options > disable ( Automatic Pen Color Visibility Adjustment for Model Views .

or try :

Ask your your Pens to stay home , no more rugby .

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:08:59 GMT

"DataChris" wrote:
ALL my pens in ALL my stories (etc) have suddenly gone BLACK.

I'm working in AC11 and figure this is a display option I wasn't aware of but I can't figure out how to turn it off so I can see the actual pen colors. (this happened after installing the newest lib updater).

Any advice??

Have you tried switching the pen set?
It may have inadvertently got switched when doing the "newest lib updater"??
Try: Options>Element Attributes>Pens and Colors

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Thomas Holm — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:07:38 GMT

Bier wrote:
DataChris wrote:
ALL my pens in ALL my stories (etc) have suddenly gone BLACK....
I've had this issue as well. Just re-apply your pen set and you'll get your colors back. Like this:
Try: Options>Element Attributes>Pens and Colors

Choose the right Pen set and OK.

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Thomas Holm — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:45:59 GMT

An addition: I've checked a little, and it seems this problem occurs only when you've changed a pen (this will change the pen set to "Custom") and NOT Named and Saved it as a new Pen Set. If you then save the view and save the project and quit, Archicad will display the view in question in greyscale next time you open the project and access this view in the Navigator.

I guess it's a minor bug, but since the recommended practice is to always name and save your pensets, and always attach a named penset to each saved view, I don't regard it as serious.

Re: Pens suddenly ALL BLACK

Paul King — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:26:26 GMT

This is also a symptom of what I think is an OpenGL bug (everything suddenly displays as black, including white fills).

Hitting "save" can often clear it for a while, but only long term solution I have found is to exit & restart ArchiCAD when it starts happening