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Auto Pens in Viewport

toman311
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Usually in the office people draw in our pen weights titled "Standard". When we print, we like to have it set to "Standard Black & White". Is there any way to get a viewport to automatically transfer to "Standard Black & White" when creating a viewport?

Basically, instead of automatically going with the "By View" setting, I want the viewport to go with a custom setting every time I create a viewport.
>ArchiCAD 23, 7000 USA FULL

>iMac, 27-inch, 2020, Processor: 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7, Memory: 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB
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Laszlo Nagy
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All you need to do is modify the default settings of the Drawing Tool.
What you see on Layouts are Drawings, so if you change the Pen Set setting of the Drawing Tool, that setting will be applied to every new Drawing placed on Layouts.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
All you need to do is modify the default settings of the Drawing Tool.
What you see on Layouts are Drawings, so if you change the Pen Set setting of the Drawing Tool, that setting will be applied to every new Drawing placed on Layouts.
Loving Archicad since 1995 - Find Archicad Tips at x.com/laszlonagy
AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27
toman311
Enthusiast
Thanks!

I usually just drag my drawings onto the page, so I didn't know how to do it the way you mentioned; which, that way is the way to do what I want to do.

Thanks again.
>ArchiCAD 23, 7000 USA FULL

>iMac, 27-inch, 2020, Processor: 3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7, Memory: 64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT 8 GB