elevation lineweight

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering how to set line weight for elevation.
I've done a forum search but could not find a right answer for my case.
It is this: I wanna set my wall outline in elevation bolder than my curtain wall lines. I've tried the property's setting of both but it doesnt come out right in elevation.
Attached is screen-shot.
Please help or help me with a link.
Many thanks for all.
Cheers,

[Anonymous]

though the only way to get a bold outline of the building will be to trace with the line/poly line tool

[Djordje]

Scott wrote:
though the only way to get a bold outline of the building will be to trace with the line/poly line tool

As the famous unlinker Duane tipped a long time ago, MagicWand also does the work ...

[Dwight]

But that magic wand outline technique is a two-stepper, needing an outline to guide the path through space to complete itself - a box drawn with lines above and to the sides of the elevation does it.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

Philosophically, the manual heavy outline within the elevation (as opposed to the section outline pen, which is generated automatically by ArchiCAD) should be avoided: the same effect of separating the facade from the background can be obtained using material hatches, shadows, distant area options, eventually 2D background fills.

All of those don't need a single man-minute and look great; they would be too laborious for a pencil/pen drawing where the heavier outline would be a good cost-effective draftsman solution, with an ArchiCAD model it is the other way around.

[Dwight]

Yes. We call the outline method a "Cheap Draftsman's Trick!!"

[Laura Yanoviak]

Dwight wrote:
But that magic wand outline technique is a two-stepper, needing an outline to guide the path through space to complete itself - a box drawn with lines above and to the sides of the elevation does it.

Dwight -- can you illustrate what you are describing?

We use a medium pen for Uncut Elements, and a fine pen for Marked Distant Area, adding heavy line/polylines where needed for emphasis -- far from ideal, but the easiest way to get the results we need.

[Dwight]

The idea is to get the outline of the building elevation traced in all its complexity automatically.

But it doesn't seem to work on an active section like it did years ago.

Sigh.

Maybe Duane can help.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Dwight wrote:
But it doesn't seem to work on an active section like it did years ago.

Sigh.

Maybe Duane can help.

Yeah, I think Duane the inventor of the technique may have to figure out how to make it work in 12. Encountered what seems like buggy behavior to me trying to get this to work. Even taking a Worksheet view of the elevation, to get an exploded copy, ran into the following problem:

I drew a continuous line around the outside of the elevation and through the middle. If I turn off all layers except this line, and magic wand inside the linework with a fill (testing the magic wand issue) - it fills the bounded space just fine. Turn on the elevation, and magic wand above the roof, within the drawn-line boundary, and I get the error message "Region not found around this point!", and nothing happens. But, at the least, there is a region defined by the continuous line. Adding MORE lines cannot make a continuous region discontinuous. So...methinks there is a bug...

Hopefully, Duane has an idea...

Cheers,
karl