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Pen & Colours

Anonymous
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Hey guys!

I always draw in black and white in Archicad. However it is very tidious work to always change each object's line colours to black.

So I modified my own penset, where each colour is either black or white. The problem is that most objects have different standard colour, so now sometimes when I place for eg. a stair, the fill is black. Is there a downloadable penset for black and white drawing, or do I have to find the right colours by experimenting and then change them to black?

Thank you in advance!
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laszlonagy wrote:
But basically what it boils down to is that you can set all your Pens to Black except those that are used by elements for Background or Fill Background.
According to the above articles, these are:

Pens 19, 39, 59, 79, 99, 119, 139 plus
Pens 121 to 137.
Pen 91 isn't listed there. I wouldn't be changing that!

Cheers,
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Yes, that is a question whether that needs to be changed or not.
The reason I think it might need to be changed is because in the INT version, if you activate the Cover Fill for a Slab, the default Cover Fill Background Pen is Pen 91 (which is kind of strange but whatever).
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