Close up of the Wall Composite with one of the fills in white and the other black.
The workaround I would use for AC11 (works with 14 also) would be to use different sets of pens for the architectural and structural drawings. The Composite settings are:
1. Contour - Solid Line pen 255
2. Foreground Fill - Skin Pattern Solid, pen 251
3. Hidden Line - Separator, Line = dashed, pen 253
4. Solid Fill
5. same as 3
6. same as 2
7. same as 1
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You will need to play with the line width of 1 and the thickness of the fill in 2 to see which achieves the best result. Partial Structure Display simplifies this problem and looks better when lines are intersecting it is under the "Document" Menu in AC14.
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For the architectural drawings pen settings, pens 255 and 251 would be black
For the structural drawings pen settings, pens 255 and 251 would be white
1. Contour - Solid Line pen 255
2. Foreground Fill - Skin Pattern Solid, pen 251
3. Hidden Line - Separator, Line = dashed, pen 253
4. Solid Fill
5. same as 3
6. same as 2
7. same as 1
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You will need to play with the line width of 1 and the thickness of the fill in 2 to see which achieves the best result. Partial Structure Display simplifies this problem and looks better when lines are intersecting it is under the "Document" Menu in AC14.
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For the architectural drawings pen settings, pens 255 and 251 would be black
For the structural drawings pen settings, pens 255 and 251 would be white
Hello John,
With that out of the way:
1. Create a Composite following the previous instructions. For more information look in page 23 of AC11 Reference Guide
2. Assign the composite to your walls
3. Save 1 view for architecture and one view for structure
4. Each saved view will have its own Pen Setting, for example arch-pens and struct-pens. Page 24 of the AC11 Reference Guide.
5. In arch-pens the pen colors for the Contour line and the first fill will be black which will make the composite look like it has a continuous black line.
6. In struct-pens those same pens will be white which will let the "dashed" line show.
7. You will need to calibrate the thickness of the fills in the Composite to get it to look like you want.
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The look you can achieve using Partial Structure Display is better than the one with this method. This is a Work Around therefore you will have to spend sometime figuring how to get it to do what you need and there might be situations were it might not work. I don't use this trick therefore I am not an expert on it.
With that out of the way:
1. Create a Composite following the previous instructions. For more information look in page 23 of AC11 Reference Guide
2. Assign the composite to your walls
3. Save 1 view for architecture and one view for structure
4. Each saved view will have its own Pen Setting, for example arch-pens and struct-pens. Page 24 of the AC11 Reference Guide.
5. In arch-pens the pen colors for the Contour line and the first fill will be black which will make the composite look like it has a continuous black line.
6. In struct-pens those same pens will be white which will let the "dashed" line show.
7. You will need to calibrate the thickness of the fills in the Composite to get it to look like you want.
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The look you can achieve using Partial Structure Display is better than the one with this method. This is a Work Around therefore you will have to spend sometime figuring how to get it to do what you need and there might be situations were it might not work. I don't use this trick therefore I am not an expert on it.
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