B&W Layout drawings?

[Anonymous]

How can I make the drawings in my layout appear black & white? Ie. no colors or grayscale, just black lines and the rest white.

I tried to make ALL colors in the pen set white, still the drawing appears with filled areas in color, the rest is white. When I choose B&W the drawing appears in gray scale.

[Bob Moore]

Which version of Archicad are you using?

[Anonymous]

I'm using AC13

[Anonymous]

The colors are presumably zones. They use their own RGB background per the zone settings rather than pen colors. You can change the zone settings, the display options or hide the layer as appropriate to your needs.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
The colors are presumably zones. They use their own RGB background per the zone settings rather than pen colors. You can change the zone settings, the display options or hide the layer as appropriate to your needs.

The colors are slabs, walls, various materials and roofs. In the drawing layout it's all on the same layer, the Drawing and Figure. Hiding it will hide everything.

[Anonymous]

Thomasx wrote:
The colors are slabs, walls, various materials and roofs.

This is strange since these are all drawn with pens. Besides zones the only other conditions I can think of that use RGB color are 3D shaded/rendered views and perhaps the cover fills of slabs and roofs (I'd have to check this latter possibility).

In the drawing layout it's all on the same layer, the Drawing and Figure. Hiding it will hide everything.

The drawing is on one layer in the layout but the elements within the drawing (in its source view) presumably are on multiple layers.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:

The drawing is on one layer in the layout but the elements within the drawing (in its source view) presumably are on multiple layers.

Yes, but I don't want to change the source view. Unless I really really have to just to get the drawings right. Yet another AC workaround, I guess...

Thanx for trying to help me out, I really appreciate it.

Thomas

[Anonymous]

Thomas,

I think you would benefit from some hands on in person training or perhaps just some user group meetings if such are available near you. You seem to make a lot of assumptions about how ArchiCAD should work without talking the time to find out how it does work. And it does work very well for many thousands of users.

I agree that the tutorials could be better but from what I've seen this is an industry wide problem. The documentation at least is far better than the help files and manuals that come with Revit.

[Anonymous]

Matthew, honestly, in most cases with AC, it's not that I make assumptions about how it should work, but rather that it should work. I don't care too much about how it works, as long as it does work. In my world, any cad-program should be able to output plain b&w outline drawings, I assume AC should be able to too. So far I have found no way to do that. You seem like an AC-experienced person and yet seem somewhat surprised by the problem I am facing. I don't know if that is because I am failing with what is normaly a simple thing to do and the questions is what did I do wrong, or because I am trying to do something no-one tried before. The latter would surprise me because I've seen the same types of drawings in the states too, so they're probably not too uncommon over there either. My question remains, how do i get b&w outline drawings out of ac?

Matthew wrote:
The documentation at least is far better than the help files and manuals that come with Revit.

So, actually what you are saying is that AC is not the worst... 😉

[Eduardo Rolon]

Just to be sure.