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.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Just to be sure.

Is this what you want to do?

[Eduardo Rolon]

In Layout.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Placed Drawing Settings.

Click on Pen Set.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Partial list of Pen Sets for CD's

[Anonymous]

Hi Eduardo

Yes, more or less. But I am looking at the north/south/east/west elevations of the exterior, and the walls, roof, etc are filled with colors. I did try to change pen sets, but it didn't do the trick.

[Anonymous]

Thomasx wrote:
Hi Eduardo

Yes, more or less. But I am looking at the north/south/east/west elevations of the exterior, and the walls, roof, etc are filled with colors. I did try to change pen sets, but it didn't do the trick.

Check in the elevation settings. You will have 'Fill Uncut Surfaces With' set to 'Own Material Colours'. Change this to 'Nothing' and you will get just the edge lines.

Also check you have 'Vectorial 3D Hatching' ticked to be able to see the fills on the surfaces correctly.

[Eduardo Rolon]

I assume that your Elevations look like this.

[Eduardo Rolon]

In layout they will look like this even though you have changed the Pen Settings.

[Eduardo Rolon]

If so you have to change the elevation Settings to Nothing.

[JaredBanks]

I was just about to mention that it is an 'Own Material Colours' issue. It always pays to be very precise. None of us knew it was an elevation or section at first! I've attached an image of the setting.

Additionally, for some more thoughts on black and white drawings, I recently did a blog post about it here: blog post

And ArchiCAD gets easier. It's just annoying at first.