overlays and different colors

[rgarand]

Hello all,

I need to do something in ArchiCAD which I easily accomplished in AutoCAD. Here is what I need to do.

I have a 3 story house. I want to overlay all of the floors on one sheet. I would like to have each floor print in a different color. I can't quite figure out the process to do this in ArchiCAD.

If I were doing this in AutoCAD I would just open a new file. Xref in each individual floor, because I would of drawn each floor in a separate file. Then AutoCAD allows me to change the colors of the Xrefed layers to what ever I want.

Can I change element colors within plotmaker? I can not figure out how to accuratly align different floors in plotmaker. Should I be making modules of each floor and working with them that way.

Or should I just tell my boss that this is not easily accomplished.

FYI Doing this in AutoCAD would have taken me about 5 minutes...maybe ten to actually get a hardcopy out of the plotter. Can ArchiCAD do this that quickly?

[MMontgomery]

Place a hotspot on the ArchiCAD layer in identical positions on each floor and use that to line up each floor in PM.

Once you have the viewsets placed in PM, select one of the drawings and open the drawing settings and look under the 'Attributes Update Rules' tab and uncheck the 'Pen and Colors' box in the 'Custom for this Drawing' option. This allows you to change the pencolors to whatever you like for that drawing.

Then, with the drawing still selected, open the "Options>Drawing Pens & Colors..." and make changes as you see fit.

Select the next drawing and wash, rinse, repeat...

Once you get the hang of it, it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to complete the entire process.

[Djordje]

rgarand wrote:
FYI Doing this in AutoCAD would have taken me about 5 minutes...maybe ten to actually get a hardcopy out of the plotter. Can ArchiCAD do this that quickly?

What you know takes much shorter then what you don't know.

Five minutes is too long for this.

[rgarand]

MMontgomery,
That was exactly what I wanted to hear! I love this list...and ArchiCAD!