Contour lines in Window Openings

[Anonymous]

I suspect I'm missing something simple, but am finding when I insert a window in a wall, I have a choice of :

a) setting the wall contours to 0 (none), so that I don't see the outline of the wall below the sill, but then I don't get the end lines of wall at the jambs., or

b) setting the wall contours to 1, so that now I see the end lines of the wall at the jambs, but I also get the outline of the wall below the sill.

The wall contour line setting under 'Floor Plan Representation' seems to work indepently of the first parameter, but doesn't affect the wall ends at the jambs.

How can I get both the wall ends and no contour lines below the cill?

(Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I do find the Search facility less than useful)

KEITH

Archicad 10 on MAC OSX

[__archiben]

Link wrote:
... but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS.

not directly from the UI - or if you can i've never found it!

you can use system hacks like 'cocktail' to change the default format, or simply File>Export from 'preview' after you've opened it.

alternatively, investigate screen capture tools such as 'Snapz Pro X' from ambrosia software if you are likely to do a lot of it.

~/archiben

[Anonymous]

Keith wrote:

Still got a problem with Screenshots. Preview doesn't offer me any alternative formats in 'Save As'. If I just overwrite the extension with .JPG, I get an error message telling me that the required file type is .TIFF. The shortcut keys save as .PDF format - which isn't very user friendly. My MAC help screen actually says that pictures will be saved as PDF's - is there an option somewhere to change this to PNG?

What I have done which works quite well is created a folder action (right click on folder - create folder action) that creates a duplicate Jpeg file. Any image that I capture with grab and save into this folder will automatically be duplicated into a folder I have named "jpeg files" and converted to a jpeg.

[Stress Co_]

Ah, always something new to learn in OSX. Try rolling your scrool wheel while holding "control"

[Anonymous]

Stress wrote:
Ah, always something new to learn in OSX. Try rolling your scrool wheel while holding "control"

I like it. Good for those aging eyes or small text on web sites...

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:
... but can't you change the format it captures to? I am sure I saw it somewhere in the OS. Confused

I just made a screen shot on a mac which made a PDF
which I opened in Preview where there is an option
to export as a .jpg which it did.

Peter Devlin

[Link]

No, it was more automatic than that. I did it on a client's machine - maybe they had a utility or changed the format in the OS using this tutorial?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Hello Link,
Thanks for the link.
Do you happen to know when the Mac OS started making .pngs ?
My machine makes .pdfs but I am still in OS 10.3.9.
Back in OS 9 or earlier the OS made picts.
Peter Devlin

[Link]

AFAIK it was OS 10.4 (Tiger) when the default screenshot file format changed to PNG instead of PDF.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Link

[Link]

You're always welcome Peter.

Cheers,
Link.