topic Fill setting for solid walls in presentation plans in Modeling

Fill setting for solid walls in presentation plans

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 07:04:40 GMT

How do I get the wall fill settings to display a wall with a heavy outline (60mm) and a greyscale fill?. I am using the presentation-solid setting in model view and the override cut fill is the same pen as the wall's cut pen line. In my case is shows a nice grey colour on screen but when printing it comes out solid black. I am missing something very basic here I'm sure. Thanks.

Re: Fill setting for solid walls in presentation plans

Link — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:45:37 GMT

How are you printing? Directly from the model screen, as in File>Print? Or via the layout book?

ArchiCAD is generally WYSIWYG so I'd check your Print Settings.

Please post a screenshot if you can't resolve it.

Cheers,
Link

Re: Fill setting for solid walls in presentation plans

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:48:29 GMT

You are indeed missing something very basic... well, not entirely

If you're using the presentation solid model view options, all walls will be filled in with black or grey, switch 'Drafting+Fill', and you'll see the fill you want. To do this you can either use the 'Quick Options' Palette, or just click on the Drafting Plan in the Navigator view map.

Re: Fill setting for solid walls in presentation plans

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:30:57 GMT

Thanks, I used the publisher and published to pdf using the greyscale setting. Not ideal but very workable. Haven't printed it yet but hopefully the blacks will print black enough and not dark grey. On screen it looks fine. So much basic stuff to learn, I feel like a complete beginner again after 20 years.