View Set questions

[Anonymous]

My boss has asked me to change the way our walls display when I create a view set for a floor framing plan.

I want the beams and joists to display at the chosen line weights, but I want the walls below to display more as ghost lines. Our plotter's software (HP designjet 500ps) won't print ghost stories or I'd set the floor framing up as a separate story and print the other story as a ghost.

Is there a way to set up a view set with the wall layer different without changing the wall attributes for all the layers the walls appear on?

Thanks for the help.

[Petros Ioannou]

make 2 different view sets. One containing the walls , and one only beams and joists. Adjust display properties as needed and align them on a layout inside Plotmaker(using hotspots).

HTH
Petros

[Petros Ioannou]

You can also set all pen colours in grey (as a ghost story) and use only one pen width in Plotmaker.


Petros

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tips. Very clever and helpful. The forum is great!

[TomWaltz]

Our office generally only uses 3 rows of pens:
1) Architectural
2) Architectural "sometimes gray sometimes black" (like apartments or fit-outs on an overall plan)
3) MPE & Structural

We then have three corresponding pen settings in Plotmaker (placed as PMK's on the Master sheet). One has black Architectural and gray Engineering, one has black Architectural and black "units & fitouts", and one has black Engineering and gray Architectural.

You match-and-inject the pen settings of the PMK into the view you place.

It took a little to set up, but is pretty easy on the end users. They just learn to use either pen 04, 24, or 44 for light lines, 08, 28, or 48 for dark, etc.