printing in B&W

[Anonymous]

Hello.
I have a question. I have a plan which I drew using multiple colour lines. I would like to print black and white, everything with one exception - the red lines. Is that possible? How?
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Save a View in the View Map and assign to it a Pen Set with colors set to Black, exeption for RED.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply. I created a view, but I do not know how to make a pen set. How do I proceed?

[Michael Reed]

There is the option in the "Drawing Selection Settings" under Properties-colors-black and white.

[Barry Kelly]

Options menu > Element Attributes > Pens & Colours.

Change the pen colours to hat you want and "Store As" a new pen set.
Now set that pen set to be used in your view settings or as I do set the drawings on your layouts to use that pen set.

Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Michael wrote:
There is the option in the "Drawing Selection Settings" under Properties-colors-black and white.

That is true but igreere wants some colour too.
Barry.

[Michael Reed]

Sorry missed the bit about red lines.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
Options menu > Element Attributes > Pens & Colours.

Change the pen colours to hat you want and "Store As" a new pen set.
Now set that pen set to be used in your view settings or as I do set the drawings on your layouts to use that pen set.

Barry.

I went to Pens and Colours, but I got lost immediately. How do I edit the colours? How do I take all colours that are used in my drawing and tell Archicad to print them black? I went through the print styles that are available. It has Grayscale, but not B&w. It would have been easy to customize a B&W pen set.

[JaredBanks]

Here's a post I wrote about this a few years ago:

http://www.shoegnome.com/2011/01/16/pen-sets-part-onev1/

And the rest of the series:

http://www.shoegnome.com/tag/pen-sets/

I really need to revisit this. But in general setting up a black and white pen set for printing is the way to go, that way you have full control if you need colors, gray scale, etc.

(by the way, this post has a better image of what my latest pen sets are organized around: http://blog.graphisoftus.com/archicad-education/tips-and-tricks/template-creation-template-migration...)

[Anonymous]

I noticed I cannot create or copy a new pen set. Is there anything I miss on this? If I go to Store as and save a new set, I do not have the Custom pen set.