True line weight vs Hairline display: not coherent view

[dfks]

Hi,

I made a section that looks amazing with the Hairline turned on (True Line Weight off): contour thicker and the inside very thin.
When I set the True Line on, it looks really bad and doesn't follow any drawing rules. 

Do you know what could it be the setting that makes the difference?

[Benedek Gaszpor]

Hm... In that case, it is most likely the building material issue, in my opinion.

If the two elements have different building materials, even if the section fill is exactly the same, there will be a line between the two.

Oh... I've just noticed something:

On your first image, that's not really hairline visualization, but "Bold Cut Lines".

As I remember correctly, with the basic Archicad settings, when you turn off the "True Line Weight," it defaults to "Bold Cut Lines" on.

If you really wish to see a true hairline for editing, you need both the "Bold Cut Lines" and the "True Line Weight" option off.

Bear in mind that this is only an On-screen view option and will not modify the end result when plotted.

For the end result, it will always plot it by using the True Line Weight.

(Unless you override it for the plotting settings, to plot everything as a hairline. But alas, the desired, stringer outlines are still missing.)

In this image, you can see the logic of how it works:

And here is where you can toggle it:

So If you wish to get an end result, where the perimeter lines plotted as thicker, while keeping the other lines as is:

1) You can make sure that the elments have the same building material, thus the line in between them will be invisible, as the fill patterns will merge.

2) You go the manual way and draw the thicker outlines on top manually. 😕

Hope this helps, or gets you closer to the desired end result. 🙂

Cheers!