walls fill as solid for site plan

[Anonymous]

I want to show two different looks for walls on the site plan and floor plans.
I want the walls to have a solid black fill on the site plan and no fill of the floor plan. Is there a setting (or workaround) that allows the wall fills to change from solid fill to no fill.
Thank you,
John

[Link]

Display Options John. Check out the options for Cut Fills. Then assign those display options to views and place them in PlotMaker.

Gee I bet Hawaii is nice this time of year....

Cheers mate,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link,
Thanks for the tip--this looks like what I'm looking for. Is there a step by step tutorial or directions on how cut fills (on and off) work?
Thanks,
John

[Karl Ottenstein]

Here's another workaround...depending on what other information you need to show and whether you are cutting things are not.

We all are using (I hope) vectorial hatching for all printed work. The bitmap fills are a throwback to the days of old when computers were slow.

You can do tricks with the display options to view fills as vectorial or bitmapped ... by making the fills completely different!

For example, define a new wall fill by duplicating 25%. Edit the bitmap pattern to be solid black. Voila. Now, if you display vectorial, your walls are 25% filled, if bitmapped, they are solid. Make an appropriate display combo and view setting, and you've got two different 'looks'.

This is a kludgy and only slightly satisfying punt at having "styles" in ArchiCAD ... but it can work in some special situations I think?

Karl

[Link]

Interesting Karl.

How about this one - mapping the background pen to the same color as the foreground pen in PlotMaker - for the site plan only?

I use this technique all the time for my templates because it works for all fills! This way you can have the same display options, vectorial fills and pens in ArchiCAD and at the last minute do the ol' switcharoo

Cheers,
Link.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Link wrote:
How about this one - mapping the background pen to the same color as the foreground pen in PlotMaker - for the site plan only?

I prefer WYSIWYG editing in AC, but that certainly works! 😉

I think to work perfectly - so that all fills don't end up black on the site plan - that you would need to have several white pens (for backgrounds) and dedicate one of them to the wall background, so that you are only changing wall fills. But, yeah, certainly doable! Good idea.

Karl

[Link]

I prefer WYSIWYG editing in AC...

That surprises me mate. I believe the power of PlotMaker lies in it's pen mapping. My motto is: Layers in ArchiCAD determine what we see in our views and Pens & Colors in PlotMaker determine how we see 'em.

Back to skinning my cat....

Respectfully,
Link.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Link wrote:

I prefer WYSIWYG editing in AC...

That surprises me mate. I believe the power of PlotMaker lies in it's pen mapping. My motto is: Layers in ArchiCAD determine what we see in our views and Pens & Colors in PlotMaker determine how we see 'em.

Well, maybe not WYSIWYG but WYSIAWYG (what you see is almost what you get). 😉

I don't "believe" in manipulating pen tables in PM, unless required as a workaround (your idea below). My AC pens show colors; my PM pens (uniform pens) show black and greyscale (for normal pens). Weights are identical in each. So, except for the color in AC (to distinguish things while editing), things look the same in AC as PM for me.

I agree that in some situations, changing pens in PM is a good workaround for the lack of 'styles' in AC.

Cheers,
Karl