covering up lines on elevations

[Anonymous]

Is there a way of covering up some lines that are showing on my elevations and sections?

These lines are from certain walls not intersecting, I don't want them to intersect on the plan to represent different wall types, however on the elevation everthing will be covered with stucco, so there will be no line between them.

(I kind of remember being able to cover them up with an empty fill or a white line at some version back but can't seem to do that any more)

AC9, Win XP

[Djordje]

Did I menton patches?

Don't think so

Merry Christmas,

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Did I menton patches?

Don't think so

Merry Christmas,

Well you didn't but others did
Anyway we are all right and wrong at the same time.
The thing is what works better for anyone
Create a patch move it on the side of the model ,explode it and then clean up sound good because you can inspect any change on the model and copy>paste>expode to the patch.
and as you said MERRY CHRISTMAS

[Djordje]

[Anonymous]

Hi.
I´d like to add my personal technic in elevation drawings. After the model is fairly done and stable, I turn the elevations to drawing. Keeping autogroup "on" I copy paste the elevation/section to the side. I get another 2d drawing which is not directly linked to the model, but all elements are grouped by element. I fine tune this one and delete or add any new lines, circles, fills etc.
I never touch or care to change the main elevation/section which stays linked, and can always update it either manually or put back to automatic to see changes occur.
If there are changes, the elements are grouped, and I just copy them to the 2d elevation on the side.
Fairly quick for me. Thanks

[Anonymous]

I also use a separate 2d elevations (and sections) from the 3d model by copying and pasting the line work in from the model. I then take the line and fills (2d elements) and place them on their own layers. The model stays intact. I simply have several quickviews for each elevation/section: 2d only, 3d only, and 2d and 3d for comparison sake. I never lose the virtual building. If I update soemthing in 3d, I simply copy and paste whatever changed, move it to a 2d layer and the 2d is updated very easily.

I like this method for several reasons. I can clean up the 2d very easily and get rid of unwanted lines, fills , etc. I can clean up the line weights. I'm very picky about what my linework looks like. I am never able to get very good linework directly out of the 3d model in elevation or section. If I'm using shadows, I can get very accurate shadows. 3d shadows from the model sometimes do peculiar things.

[Scott Bulmer]

Sorry to resurrect this topic, but here goes.

We have a well defined model, which has some lines in the section/elevations that we would like to cover up with either a patch or fill.

In the attached image, you can see that all looks fine in the screen view, however in the plotted sheet the fill or patch fails to obscure elements behind.

We have tried white fore and background pens with solid, marker, air, empty, and you name it fills without luck. Is it the HP700 plotter that can't handle this, or are we doing something wrong?

Thanks for any thoughts,
Scott

[Anonymous]

I has happened to me before. I have to remember to print instead of plotting. But it takes a longer time for the plotter to receive the signal from the computer.