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Line and Pen Settings for Roof - Story Below

Tincan561
Contributor
I am trying to change the line and pen for a roof shown below.

In the image shown, I have the roof in Outlines Only and am showing a custom setting for one story below without a fill. I do not want the heavy line indicated and wish to change the pen setting.

The Uncut Line settings only affect the home story and above.
I checked Legacy Options for a global setting, but that doesn't work either.

Thank you

AC19 Roof Below.jpg
Archicad 26 Macbook Pro, Ventura 13.6.3
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
Tincan561:

When you change Floor Plan Display from Outlines Only to Projected with Overhead, two more options will appear in the Outlines panel: Overhead Lines and Overhead Line Pen, which control the overhead appearance. Once these have been adjusted, you can change Floor Plan Display back to Outlines Only. This looks like an interface bug, since these parameters control the appearance of the Roof when set to Outlines Only, but are hidden in the panel (they are not hidden in the Info Box).

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14
Tincan561
Contributor
Thank you. A perfect answer, very helpful
Archicad 26 Macbook Pro, Ventura 13.6.3
Brad Elliott
Booster
It appears that in AC20 they are now hidden in the Info Box as well? Just led to an embarrassing waste of an hour.
Mac OS12.6 AC26 USA Silicon
M1 Macbook Pro
David Maudlin
Rockstar
Brad wrote:
It appears that in AC20 they are now hidden in the Info Box as well? Just led to an embarrassing waste of an hour.
They are there, check your Work Environment.

David
David Maudlin / Architect
www.davidmaudlin.com
Digital Architecture
AC27 USA • iMac 27" 4.0GHz Quad-core i7 OSX11 | 24 gb ram • MacBook Pro M3 Pro | 36 gb ram OSX14
Brad Elliott
Booster
Thanks David,
With all the new features in the last couple versions I tried to restart my templates from the ArchiCAD default ones when I just recently started using AC20. I now realize that they have hidden many features that I have turned on over the years. In it's default settings I have found the program to be almost unusable and have been busy turning things back on and re-opening some basic palettes. Now it looks like I need to go through the Info boxes as well.
The interface change and this type of experience has really driven home to me how scattered and disjointed AC's settings system has become. I wish they had fixed that instead of the icons. Maybe AC22.
This does not absolve the fact that even with those settings now turned on in the work environment they do not show up in either the Plan and Section Sub-Panel of the Info Box or the Floor plan and Section Panel in the Roof Settings Box. IMO everything should always be on and visible in the Settings Box. I have attached an image.
Mac OS12.6 AC26 USA Silicon
M1 Macbook Pro