Line Weight in Elevations

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm having trouble showing appropriate line weight differentiation in my elevations for construction drawings.

They show a flat, single weight with grey beyond.

Does anyone have examples of elevations with multiple line weights?

[David Maudlin]

Jednum:

If the Lines you are using have different weights (thicknesses), then they should show. Check the on screen setting: True Line Weight. I usually use Polylines of varying weights to outline forms in elevation.

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David

[Erwin Edel]

This could be caused by a graphic override, try to turn off all overrides to see if the lineweight changes.

[Anonymous]

Thank you David and Erwin.

David, so you have been manually tracing your elevations with Polylines?

Erwin, there are currently no overrides turned on.

If we were to manually set overrides, won't that change the line weight in all views? So an element in the foreground of a south elevation may appear with the correct, thicker weight, but the same element in the north elevation will still appear with the thicker weight even though it's in the background?

[Barry Kelly]

If you want absolute control of the appearance of lines in elevation then you will have to trace over with lines that you can control yourself.

Otherwise you can set the line weight (pen) for each element you use but the problem with that is that what is in the front of one elevation (needing thick pen) may be at the rear of another elevation (needing a thin pen) - and you can't have it both ways.

So then you have to use the 'Marked Distance Area' setting in the elevation/section settings.
This does an OK job but looks a bit odd when it splits a sloping roof or angled wall that passes through this distance mark.

Barry.

[David Maudlin]

Jednum wrote:
David, so you have been manually tracing your elevations with Polylines?

Yes. I have not found any automatic settings that allow the control I need to get the elevations to read as I think they should, and there are graphic decisions that cannot be based simply on the distance form the elevation line.

David

[Anonymous]

If Graphisoft would add the saved selections as a graphic override parameter to apply a rule, this will change a lot of things and make this task a lot easier, imagine selecting the elements that will have a certain pen and just save the selection and add a GO rule to change the pen of that elements in the view, this will give us a better and faster way to do it, it will not be perfect and will need a little bit of work, but those tools are there already. I just hope they keep developing GO, cause it has a lot of potential to solve all of our graphics needs.