Lines in True weight. Rounded tip? or squared?

[Anonymous]

I have this problem when drawing details and I print them they don't look very good because the tips of the lines are rounded on their ends (visible on the screen aswell when you zoom in the tip of a line in trueweight mode). Is there a way to draw with lines that have squared tips?

Thanks,
Lukas

[Anonymous]

THANK YOU PETER.
FILLS IT IS.

[Stress Co_]

Another method would be to use the "Create Patch" tool:

Draw a marque around the area you want to cover.

Open: Document> Document Extras> Create Patch

Name the patch. Check to see that "place patch now" is checked in the options.

Save.

Select the "patch object".

Drag a copy off to the side (so it's easier to see)

Edit> Reshape> "Explode (the copy) into the current view" (select "keep drawing primitives only")

Delete the lines or fills you want to get rid of.

Select the "exploded" object (the parts should be grouped).

File> Libraries and Objects> Save selection as....
Give it the same name as the original patch.

Delete the copy.

I cannot recall the last time I used this tool

[Anonymous]

Holy Moly.
Is that easier than making a little fill?
What are the advantages of this?
I have never heard of it, I will try it out.

[Stress Co_]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
What are the advantages of this?

Billable hours?

[Anonymous]

An option for square edges in lines sure would be nice for someone like me that still has to use a fair amount of line work to finish off my modeling, especially sections.
I would assume that as my skill level rises, (maybe ten more yrs) I won't need them as much as I'm sure the advanced users don't.
Is there a square line end pole someplace already?
lec

[David Maudlin]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
What are the advantages of this?

If there are multiple places the same patch will work (for example, a plan view of a window jamb).

David

[jakubc]

IS THERE A WAY YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY YOUR LINE ENDS LOOK WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR TRUE LINE WEIGHT ON? MINE SHOW UP AS ROUNDED ENDS, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM AS SQUARE ENDS.

Writing now, over 3 years after this topic died.

Is there any better solution now? Archicad seems to be kind of useless in Urban design, where you have to use like 1 mm lines for buildings.

If there is still no solution, maybe we should make a wish for this? It doesn't seem like a huge problem to solve...

[Barry Kelly]

You could always try a zero height wall where the wall thickness is the width of the line you want (allowing for scale of course).
Drawing a wall in plan is the same steps as drawing a line and one advantage over lines is you can adjust the reference line so it is at the edge or in the centre.
Barry.

[jakubc]

Thats a pretty decent way of doing stuff... ^^ But still it has few big problems - it won't export properly into .dwg, making it group of fills instead. Also if you use xref from AutoCAD of a huge area, you would have to edit everything with wall and magic wand tool.

And the other problem is that in the case of big urban areas, it might get very slow even on decent computer.

[Karl Ottenstein]

This thread from 2005 has more examples and comments:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=8568

(Not sure if I should merge the two threads to keep the time-lapsed discussion together? I thought that there was a wish Poll for this, but can't find it. If anyone else can - please post a link. Thx.)