Pen colours

[Anonymous]

I notice that the palette is different on each installation in our office and some of the pens in my setup actually have the same colour. They don't seem to follow any logical progression.

Is there a way to reset the colours to a default?

[Anonymous]

Keith wrote:
Is there a way to reset the colours to a default?

You just need to do a "New and Reset" by alt clicking before opening the "file" menu.
The new file will have all the basic adjustments of ArchiCAD, in particular the pen colours.

[Anonymous]

Merci, Frédéric

[Djordje]

Keith wrote:
I notice that the palette is different on each installation in our office and some of the pens in my setup actually have the same colour. They don't seem to follow any logical progression.

Is there a way to reset the colours to a default?

It seems you have been opening many DWGs or that the people were happily changing stuff around ... time for a template, huh?

[Andy Thomson]

The office I am in has demanded we all use a black background. Hangover from AutoCad I guess, or maybe it is just another radical Canadian energy saving initiative, but I made an inverted version of Eric Batte's STS for black screen background if you want it (god forbid!) - I prefer the original.

A

[Djordje]

andyro wrote:
The office I am in has demanded we all use a black background.

AAArgh! Did anyone ever ask why?

andyro wrote:
Hangover from AutoCad I guess

Has nothign to do with AutoCAD, everything to do with old screens with not enough colors and no WYSIWY(a)G concept ...

Education is a life long process

[Andy Thomson]

I think the black background is primarily about not looking like the early AC fanatics (in this office, 65 architects, 30+ use AC and growing) were into some dorky software, so they endeavored to make it 'look' like autocad. This was many years ago.

Now I think black has become a habit, so it was simply stated to me when I set up the templates, that it be on black backgrounds.

Oh - and the other stated reason was 'it's easier on the eyes'.

Took me a while to get it all to work properly, but now I can switch black or white background, get reasonably good colour screen prints straight from AC, etc.

But of course, I prefer white, have used white forever.

A.

[Anonymous]

If you want it to be easier on the eyes just change it to a very light grey, not as hard on the eyes, and you dont have to mess about changing pen colours nor have plotting issues. thats my 2p anyway

cheers,
dan

[James Murray]

You say background, I say beige. ( R 237, G 236, B 202)

Very low eyestrain. Shows black, white, gray, and yellow.

Yes, I have posted this at least twice before.

[Barry Kelly]

James wrote:
You say background, I say beige. ( R 237, G 236, B 202)

Very low eyestrain. Shows black, white, gray, and yellow.

Yes, I have posted this at least twice before.

Our offices seem to like the old drawing board green colour (R225, G244, B 223).
Makes us old manual drafties feel right at home.

Barry.