Skin Separators and Fills in Graphic Overrides

[jd10003]

I'm exploring Graphic Override options for a composite wall with multiple core and finish skin separators.  I'd like to be able to hide the skin separators of finishes, but not core.  Does anyone know if that's possible?  To clarify, I don't want my walls to appear as "Core Only."  Rather, I'd like to see the line work for the outer surface, the core, and the inner surface only.  I just want to be able to hide the skin separators for the various layers of "build-up" of the finish assemblies.  (This is primarily for printing at 1/4" = 1'-0" where all of the skin separators for a composite wall get really muddy graphically.). I'd appreciate any ideas, or other thoughts on how to "clean up" your plans when printing at a smaller scale.

[Stuart Smith]

One way to accomplish this is to use dedicated Pens for the different skin separator conditions you want, then define Pen Sets with the Pen you want to be hidden turned white. In fact, this is how we did it before Graphic Overrides existed. 

For example, you could set up two dedicated Pens: a "visible skin separator" pen and a "hidden skin separator" pen (or Core and Finish in your case).

Use those Pens in the appropriate conditions when defining your composites.

Define new Pen Sets to show or hide (turn white) those Pens.

It would be great to have finer control over Graphic Overrides, but it's not quite there yet.

[JeffH]

This is really the only way, as Graphic Overrides currently can not affect components of a composite individually.

[jd10003]

Thank you....this is what I had arrived at as the only possible solution.  I just didn't want to get into setting up new pen sets.  I'm an old ArchiCAD user from previous firms (on, like, version 12), and also a new ArchiCAD user years later after going back to AutoCAD for years.  So I get al the "old" concepts, but still getting my legs under me with the new ones.....and dread setting up a whole new template!  (though none of the templates I've found online really work for me).    

I guess Pen Sets will be my first step into building a new template!

[SeaGeoff]

More fine grained options in Graphic Overrides would certainly be welcome. Another often-requested option is the ability to distinguish cut lines from uncut lines similar to how fill overrides can be filled by cut/cover/drafting. This is necessary to get proper overrides in section.