topic Re: Contour lines in Window Openings in Modeling

Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:15:45 GMT

I suspect I'm missing something simple, but am finding when I insert a window in a wall, I have a choice of :

a) setting the wall contours to 0 (none), so that I don't see the outline of the wall below the sill, but then I don't get the end lines of wall at the jambs., or

b) setting the wall contours to 1, so that now I see the end lines of the wall at the jambs, but I also get the outline of the wall below the sill.

The wall contour line setting under 'Floor Plan Representation' seems to work indepently of the first parameter, but doesn't affect the wall ends at the jambs.

How can I get both the wall ends and no contour lines below the cill?

(Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I do find the Search facility less than useful)

KEITH

Archicad 10 on MAC OSX

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:00:01 GMT

Hi Keith Jaw,

Probrably it's nothing to do with the wall setting, it's to do with the window setting, you may have to change the colour of the sill to " white", so, it's appear no lines on the floor plan.

hope this is one of the right answer, ha ha

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Djordje — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:06:14 GMT

Keith,

Which library and which build?

Screen shot?

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Barry Kelly — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:28:47 GMT

Keith wrote:
I suspect I'm missing something simple, but am finding when I insert a window in a wall, I have a choice of :

a) setting the wall contours to 0 (none), so that I don't see the outline of the wall below the sill, but then I don't get the end lines of wall at the jambs., or

b) setting the wall contours to 1, so that now I see the end lines of the wall at the jambs, but I also get the outline of the wall below the sill.

The wall contour line setting under 'Floor Plan Representation' seems to work indepently of the first parameter, but doesn't affect the wall ends at the jambs.

How can I get both the wall ends and no contour lines below the cill?

(Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I do find the Search facility less than useful)

KEITH

Archicad 10 on MAC OSX

You actually have a choice of 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4.
0 = Nothing.
1 = side lines and sill lines - sill lines only if the opening base is above the base of the wall.
2 = side lines only - no sill regardless of the height of the opening.
3 = no side lines and sill lines - sill lines only if the opening base is above the base of the wall.
4 = no side lines and sill lines - no sill regardless of the height of the opening.

This is a new parameter for windows and doors in version 10.
In previous version it was controlled by the "Contours" icon in the "Floor Plan" section of the window parameters.

Barry.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:08:06 GMT

Thanks Barry -

No. 2 did the trick - you obviously need to know the code!

Djorde - It's a drawing that has 'done the rounds' in our office and contains elements from 70, 8, 8.1 and 10! Yes - I know this should have been cleaned up at each conversion, but no-one seems to have known how to do it. The window in question was from the 70 Library.

I've tried to attach a screen shot in the past. The Mac makes a TIFF file, but ArchiCAD-Talk won't accept a TIFF. How do you get over that? Also I'd welcome a brief explanation of how you do the Quote thing.

KEITH

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Stress Co_ — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:16:54 GMT

Keith wrote:
I've tried to attach a screen shot in the past. The Mac makes a TIFF file, but ArchiCAD-Talk won't accept a TIFF. How do you get over that? Also I'd welcome a brief explanation of how you do the Quote thing.

I assume your using "Grab" to get your screen shot? Open the tiff in "Preview". Choose File> Save As .... Pick a format.

You can save a step by using Mac keyboard shotcuts. See attached. These shots are saved as PNG files... which do not have to be converted.

To use "quote" ..... click the "quote button, at the far right side of the post. (on the posted: date line)

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:52:57 GMT

Stress wrote:
To use "quote" ..... click the "quote button, at the far right side of the post. (on the posted: date line)

As you can see, got the quotes sorted.

Still got a problem with Screenshots. Preview doesn't offer me any alternative formats in 'Save As'. If I just overwrite the extension with .JPG, I get an error message telling me that the required file type is .TIFF. The shortcut keys save as .PDF format - which isn't very user friendly. My MAC help screen actually says that pictures will be saved as PDF's - is there an option somewhere to change this to PNG?

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Stress Co_ — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:32:37 GMT

Sorry, your not using OS 10.4, right?

The keyboard short cuts will save as PDF. Open them in Preview, Then go File> Export... choose the file type.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Link — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:22:44 GMT

It's been a while since I've captured screenshots on a Mac, but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

__archiben — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:16:56 GMT

Link wrote:
... but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS.

not directly from the UI - or if you can i've never found it!

you can use system hacks like 'cocktail' to change the default format, or simply File>Export from 'preview' after you've opened it.

alternatively, investigate screen capture tools such as 'Snapz Pro X' from ambrosia software if you are likely to do a lot of it.

~/archiben

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

__archiben — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:17:40 GMT

Link wrote:
... but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:13:26 GMT

Keith wrote:

Still got a problem with Screenshots. Preview doesn't offer me any alternative formats in 'Save As'. If I just overwrite the extension with .JPG, I get an error message telling me that the required file type is .TIFF. The shortcut keys save as .PDF format - which isn't very user friendly. My MAC help screen actually says that pictures will be saved as PDF's - is there an option somewhere to change this to PNG?

What I have done which works quite well is created a folder action (right click on folder - create folder action) that creates a duplicate Jpeg file. Any image that I capture with grab and save into this folder will automatically be duplicated into a folder I have named "jpeg files" and converted to a jpeg.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Stress Co_ — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:01:59 GMT

Ah, always something new to learn in OSX. Try rolling your scrool wheel while holding "control"

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:38:30 GMT

Stress wrote:
Ah, always something new to learn in OSX. Try rolling your scrool wheel while holding "control"

I like it. Good for those aging eyes or small text on web sites...

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:41:26 GMT

Link wrote:
... but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS. Confused

I just made a screen shot on a mac which made a PDF
which I opened in Preview where there is an option
to export as a .jpg which it did.

Peter Devlin

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Link — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:46:41 GMT

No, it was more automatic than that. I did it on a client's machine - maybe they had a utility or changed the format in the OS using this tutorial?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:07:00 GMT

Hello Link,
Thanks for the link.
Do you happen to know when the Mac OS started making .pngs ?
My machine makes .pdfs but I am still in OS 10.3.9.
Back in OS 9 or earlier the OS made picts.
Peter Devlin

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Link — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:25:49 GMT

AFAIK it was OS 10.4 (Tiger) when the default screenshot file format changed to PNG instead of PDF.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:54:18 GMT

Thank you Link

Re: Contour lines in Window Openings

Link — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:57:41 GMT

You're always welcome Peter.

Cheers,
Link.