topic Re: Zone Tool stamp in Modeling

Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:48:01 GMT

The stamp will only seem to appear on the View Map / Floor Plan ..I tried to have it place on the Area Cal Plan but only the fill shows up but not the stamp. Why ?

The other question is : what do i have to do to get the Area show up in the stamp ?

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:57:04 GMT

The zone tool setting shows the area of the zone - am I to type this in manually ?

Re: Zone Tool stamp

vistasp — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:26:30 GMT

The display of zone stamp is a model view option.

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:18:52 GMT

thanks for replying but i don't understand what you mean....

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Srinivas — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:51:51 GMT

Did you turn on the "Show Area" option in your Zone Stamp tab? I don't have archicad with me to post screenshot for you but its explained in this video

You can read more about Model View options that Vistap was mentioning earlier here and here,although I don't think it will affect the display of Zone area .

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:12:15 GMT

thanks...i got the mvo now.
but the next question is the 'show area' is not in the zone tool and looks applecore has a custom zone tool that has custom fields.
thanks again!

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Srinivas — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:14:28 GMT

can you check using other zone stamps that you've got in your library?

Re: Zone Tool stamp

vistasp — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:00:52 GMT

Llian, you might want to read James Murray's excellent page on Zones. In fact, whenever you get a chance, go through as many pages of the site as you can. There will often be references to custom objects that you can't download (developed in-house for his own firm) but the knowledge you'll gain is still invaluable.

Can't speak for the Applecore supplied zone stamp but the default ones should work as intended. Surprising if they've left out something as fundamental as the area, though.

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:49:53 GMT

Thanks. I will go through the site but I am still puzzled as to why my zone tool setting doesn't have the 'Show Area'.....

Re: Zone Tool stamp

NCornia — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:19:18 GMT

In the Zone Selection Settings got to the Zone Stamp panel and check the box next to Show Area.

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:10:05 GMT

i think i'm coming close to solve this problem.
when i open/reset a new ac drawing, there is zone identifier 2 14 but when i opened my current drawing [ using the AMT ] , there is REA_ZONE r4 which has no 'SHOW AREA' and other fields. I tried to clean up / reload AC 14 library but i think i have just made it worse. what can i do to have an absolute clean up! I'm desperate !

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:11:33 GMT

this is current zone setting look like!

Re: Zone Tool stamp

vistasp — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:39:26 GMT

You seem to have your AC-14 library loaded twice? Regardless, I think your problem stems from not being able to change the stamp itself.

Go to :: Options > Element Attributes > Zone Categories and you will get the dialog box attached below (taken from the help files BTW). You will need to change the stamp for each of your zone categories. I hope for your sake there aren't too many.

Re: Zone Tool stamp

Llian — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:53:51 GMT

YES...Thank you!...there they are !

Re: Zone Tool stamp

vistasp — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 06:07:32 GMT

Llian wrote:
YES...Thank you!...there they are !

Glad your problem is solved. Now go to sleep! 😉