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2020-03-17
02:01 AM
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2023-05-30
12:22 PM
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2020-03-17 03:06 AM
2020-03-17 03:06 AM
2020-03-17 05:04 AM
Barry wrote:Thank you Barry! I will experiment if your method works best for the documentation style I'm after. it's such a shame that it's not a straight forward process to produce live drawings.
I don't use details or worksheets at all to produce large scaled plans - which is essentially what you are doing.
The method I use takes a little getting used to but it is all 'live' - no 2D details or worksheets that you have to 're-build' to update.
Essentially you create 2 views of you plan - one with no annotation layers and another with only annotation layers.
You combine these 2 views on you layouts to create a 'complete' view.
The advantage of this is you can crop the no annotation plan on the layout to hide the extents that you do not want to see.
The tricky bit is you can't crop while you are working on it in the plan view - so you have to ignore what will not actually be there.
Some people place a solid white fill with a hole in the middle to hide the extents, but this is just as awkward as you are for ever adjusting display order of elements.
The elevations and sections you do as you are now - hiding the markers in a layer that does not show on plan but does show with the annotation layers.
Actually I just have objects I place in the annotation layer to show the elevation markers - but they could be the real elevation markers.
Here is a link to a post that explains the process - I hope it helps.
https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=182148
Barry.
2021-06-09 07:30 PM