topic Re: Setting for Master layouts drawings in Documentation

Setting for Master layouts drawings

cocoloco — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:26:09 GMT

Hi! I hope someone could help please. Otherwise I will be here weeks just adding elevations setting one by one .

obviously I must be doing something wrong. We just created interior elevations (about 50 for a project). It took me only hours to rename all simply to A/B/C/D because there is not such automatic option (but okkk).

Now we added it to the layouts of each room... I thought it would automatically show the A/B/C/D/ under each elevation but I had to do it manually. One by one.... Again, we are having about 50 rooms.

I went to a global setting and there is not such a thing to set up fonts/what to show under elevation (it is grayed out).... Please don't tell me I have to do this manually? That can't be real, right? 😄 Anyway, I am sure there is hidden setting as always just archicad hide it mysteriously to make people wonder around.

Please if anyone know "workaround" I would so much appreciate it. I made it to 10 elevations setting one by one and can't continue working this way. All I want is to Show A/B/C/D/ or whatever I call it under elevation that I added into layouts AUTOMATICALLY. 😭

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Sonoma 14

Re: Setting for Master layouts drawings

Lingwisyer — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:22:37 GMT

While on a Layout, without anything selected, click on the Drawing Tool and open it's settings. The title options are not available when in the Project Map. You should be able to set a default for all of those. I think you can use the syringe to transfer the settings from an existing place drawing too.

Ling.

Re: Setting for Master layouts drawings

cocoloco — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:33:23 GMT

Thank you so it work for setting it moving forward BUUUUT not sure about how to move the setting to the rest. Syringe worked within one layout, yes. But not sure how to do it for let’s say 30 layouts at once .

Re: Setting for Master layouts drawings

Barry Kelly — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:05:32 GMT

@cocoloco

I personally don't use interior elevations (just the section tool) but I hope this helps and I have it correct.

Your interior elevations should be set with the name and ID that you want to recognise them by.

If the elevation name is set to 'Elevation number' <Number>, then it will automatically number incrementally.

If you set it to custom you can set A, B C, D, etc.

When you place the views (drawings) on the layout. they should be set to "By View" so they get the information automatically from the elevations you created.

Then you turn on the 'Title' option and set that as you want.

If you set the drawing tool default settings (including title text size, font, colour) before you place any drawings, then they will all come out the same and if set to automatic, you shouldn't have to adjust anything.

If you have one set up as you want ALT+click it and that will set the defaults for the drawing tool.

As soon as you start playing with individual custom settings, you have to do that for each elevation.

You should be able to select multiple elevations in the navigator list or on the layouts themselves and change the settings all at once if you want them all to be the same.

Barry.

Re: Setting for Master layouts drawings

AllanP — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:27:22 GMT

it looks like you have selected something that is embedded.

if you sort the drawing manager by type and then just select the internal elevations you should be able to edit them there all as a group.

the views are automatically ordered 01 up, 02 to the left, 03 down, 04 to the right.

if you select the secondary order (the double order arrow) by view name than you can select all the 01 together and change them to "A", 02 to "B", etc...

I hope this helps.