walls showing up gray and not cyan in plan view

[nancylee]

drawing up a new plan in Archicad 20, which I'm still learning, and the walls are drafting in as gray and not cyan.
- walls on correct layer
- cyan is selected as the line color
- cut plane set to 3'-6"

the only way to make the walls show up cyan is to make the wall start 3'-1" below the floor level.

[Barry Kelly]

If it is not the pen and/or fill settings in the wall itself then it could be a Graphic override that is changing the colours.
Change the active GO and see if that makes a difference.

Barry.

[Steve Jepson]

nancylee wrote:
drawing up a new plan in Archicad 20, which I'm still learning, and the walls are drafting in as gray and not cyan.
- walls on correct layer
- cyan is selected as the line color
- cut plane set to 3'-6"

the only way to make the walls show up cyan is to make the wall start 3'-1" below the floor level.

Did you check Floor Plan Display Options ?

[nancylee]

Here's the screenshot of how the graphic overrides are currently set.

The wall setting is set for cut and overhead projection. When I change it to other things the color stays the same.

In the screen shot you can see one wall that's cyan (it starts 3'-6" below the floorline) the rest start at the floor line and show up gray.

Thank you for your help, I bought AC20solo in August and while it came with tech support since I'm not having problems with modeling and fly throughs the tech helper I have has no idea how to do the easy stuff.

[Steve Jepson]

Renovation Filter? Do any of the walls you have drawn look like they should? What do they all look like in 3D view ? Perhaps you can use the syringe to pick up properties from walls that look correct and inject the ones that don't? Magic Wand?

[nancylee]

no Renovation filter. None of the walls are showing up cyan, and will only show up correctly if I start them 3'-6" below the floorline. If I inject the properties of the cyan wall all it does is move all the walls down and thus mess up my elevations.
AC20solo came with a bunch of presets that has been "real fun" figuring out how to change them- that is once I figure out where to change them.
The tech support that came with the program has been as useful at a slab of unreinforced concrete.