WYSIWYG

[Anonymous]

maybe it us, and maybe this is not the place to question this...but we find, we meaning me...short on meds today....that AC is not very WYSIWYG friendly...OR is there setting we are missing....

[Anonymous]

I haven’t had time to respond…but reading on something occurred to me…how do you import other color tables…for example…how can I import a Pantone color table….you can do this with other programs….and an additional comment…I have been trying some of the suggestion made…and thank you…I think for me the issue is simply this…the line weight is not proportionate to you monitor…I am used to Mircrostation proportionate viewing system…..I am attaching an example to further demonstrate….from AC the image looks like this on my monitor…but it won’t print out like this…it will obviously be clear….can we get AC to visually proportionate when we are working….something similar to Microstation

[Link]

how do you import other color tables

Options> Attribute Manager...>Pens & Colors (tab)> Open...(select pens)>Overwite/Append.

can we get AC to visually proportionate when we are working

Options>Display Options> Display Options> Line Weight: True Weight.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link thanks for the response..

1. but you can only import what has been created in AC.....pln,pla, and aat files....I tried changing the extension on both microstation and autocad color tables...only get error messages....

2. that image was shot with True weight option on...this is the image with true weight off...btw most of the pens are set to .25mm just to make the point.....

the line weights we can get around...but I am very curious about the pen tables....

[Link]

In that case you'd need to use a DWG/DXF Translator to import/map the pens into ArchiCAD.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

I know this topic is relatively old, but I ran across it doing a search of the archives and found the topics interesting. I am making some adjustments to my own pen color table and will likely incorporate some of the comments. One question I have that was eluded to has to do with the first 10 pens. The default pens used for most library parts seem to use these first 10 pens and I would hope that there is some thought as to which pen is chosen relative to the desired output line weight. Has anyone found any advantage to keeping the default line weights of the first 10 pens? I guess what I am really after is what Ben asked for - a list of what items use what pens. Furniture for example seems to have pen 7 as a default. However pen 7 in ArchiCAD's default pens is .35 mm which in my opinion is too heavy for furniture.

[Anonymous]

I have created a template file with all my furniture settings, layers, pen weights, walls, doors, windows, trees, plumbing, framing, notes, legends, roofs, slabs, meshes etc.

When starting a project the template file comes up and it is all set the way I like it. Elements are then cut, pasted, moved, copied etc to the new locations required on the new project. I think the same thing can be done with "favourites" however I am used to the template approach.

Furniture comes up with my default pen weights as well as all the other items required for the project.

In reality my template file is an old project that was fuly documented. Pieces of the template not required are deleted as the design unfolds.

This approach makes the process of starting a new project quick and set up to ones individual office standards.