topic Re: Line covering tool needed in Modeling

Line covering tool needed

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:59:18 GMT

In section/elevation there is a tool needed to cover or graphically misc. lines instead of using a blank fill to cover them up.

mark g

Re: Line covering tool needed

TomWaltz — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:14:30 GMT

The fill tool doesn't work for you? How would a specific tool be any different?

Re: Line covering tool needed

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:39:38 GMT

This wist is because of something I saw in Revit. If an line appears in the view you can choose what appears to be a masking line tool draw over the previous line and presto its gone. However its not really gone just masked out. Most of the time the fill tool is adaquate.

Thanks

Re: Line covering tool needed

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:26:18 GMT

this line tool that revit has - to beable to just "draw" a line out, just trace it out would be so much easier and quicker than using fills.

donald mac donald

Re: Line covering tool needed

Dwight — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:14:02 GMT

WOULD THIS WORK??? - me not being a drafterguy:

1: a new layer - "line masker"

2: a new pen - color of drawing background (for printing: white) with a width greater than your widest line.

Establish Favorite....

3: trace over badboy lines.

4: Select all of that color and bring to front if necessary....

Re: Line covering tool needed

Barry Kelly — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:18:18 GMT

outpostarc wrote:
This wist is because of something I saw in Revit. If an line appears in the view you can choose what appears to be a masking line tool draw over the previous line and presto its gone. However its not really gone just masked out. Most of the time the fill tool is adaquate.

Thanks

What about just using a white line of the appropriate thickness.
I have set up a white pen that matches the thickness of each of my coloured pens.
The coloured pens all print black in plotmaker and the white pens white.

No need to try to get fill to sit over a line - unless there is a whole area you want to mask.

Barry.

Re: Line covering tool needed

Dwight — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:01:30 GMT

Yeah. Like, how simple is that, eh?

Re: Line covering tool needed

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:08:28 GMT

Good idea I'll try it.

Thanks