topic Re: Trying to go 3D... need help in Modeling

Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:48:00 GMT

I'm drawing a simple balcony for a residence. As you can see on the balcony plan, I've used the slab tool to create the balcony decking and the balcony framing below. The framing is shown as a red dashed line (red is a light lineweight for us). This works great. My problem comes from the balcony elevation, the slab is also showing as a red line in the elevation as well. I cannot seem to change these in the slab settings, if I change the weight it changes in both drawings.

Is there a solution, besides developing different pen sets for plans, elevations, etc?

Also, for some reason the slab is not showing as dashed in the elevation. I don't want it to, but from the settings it seems like it should. Any ideas on this?

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:58:53 GMT

the elevation

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:59:25 GMT

and the slab tool settings

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:33:55 GMT

I do not think that it is possible to display edges of construction elements with line types other then Solid. Only GDL can do that, this is why it is possible to draw a dashed Opening Line for a Door/Window for example.
But not for Construction Elements.
That line type setting applies only to the Floor Plan, I'm afraid.

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:55:08 GMT

Ok, that's fine as I like it the way it is. What about the lineweight issue? Can I change them?

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:14:55 GMT

No, you set a Pen for Outlines and that pen is used both on the Floor Plan and in Sections/Elevations. The line thickness comes from the Pen.
So that would be possible only with using a different Pen Set and saving an Elevation View using that Pen Set, as you said in your original post.

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Erika Epstein — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:35 GMT

You can have a separate pen set for s/e windows that will assign a heavier pen weight to whichever pen you are using for the balcony slab.

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:48 GMT

Ok, I guess different pen sets are the key here.

Thanks for the help.

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Ignacio Azpiazu — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:01 GMT

Using 'Use uniform pen for cut elements' and 'Use uniform pen for uncut elements', in the Section/Elevation marker settings, would solve/prevent this type of problems. Is there a reason why you are not using it?

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:22:33 GMT

Ignacio wrote:
Using 'Use uniform pen for cut elements' and 'Use uniform pen for uncut elements', in the Section/Elevation marker settings, would solve/prevent this type of problems. Is there a reason why you are not using it?

Um, yes. By clicking that option, it changes all the cut or uncut elements to a certain pen, am I correct? I do not want what is shown in the image below..................

Re: Trying to go 3D... need help

Ignacio Azpiazu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:49 GMT

Steven wrote:
Um, yes. By clicking that option, it changes all the cut or uncut elements to a certain pen, am I correct?.

Only partially. You can set up a different pen for distant elements, and you can set up a different pen for hatches. You can show hatches in the closer elements and not show them in the distant elements. I think it gives you a lot more control than setting pens by element, which is a lot more work, and which I think will definitely require touchups in the end anyway--because outlines follow overall shapes and not elements, etc.