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[John Rhodes]

I've been playing in v2020 and trying these new elevation tools. However, it seems that these can only have color and paint which drinks ink like crazy. Is there a way or setup to have the texture lines show but not the colors? (Basically make a visible line drawing with the texture lines there so you don't have to use the paint tool but leave the colored fill off). Right now it looks like the only way to achieve this is the old way of just doing a save as .spd and painting in the lines which makes the new annotated tool useless unless you do all color/shaded elevation drawings. Thanks.

[Don Gibbons]

In the menu across the top, change the mode from shaded to Visible Line.

[John Rhodes]

Unless I missed something, the texture lines go away in visible line mode. I'd like those to stay and remove the color from the textures.

[Mark Petri]

Try all the render modes and make adjustments for how you want it. I have a set up I modified from Joseph Smith's Illustrated mode that works well. Personally I dislike how annotated elevations work, but just did one in a concept so the builder would have some quick elevation height references.

[Dennis Hilborn]

Unless I missed something, the texture lines go away in visible line mode. I'd like those to stay and remove the color from the textures.

speaking from memory here but the texture lines do go away so you have to use paint to get hatching.

Note:  If you use annotated elevations in plan sets and then export dwg the elevations export as image files NOT lines.  To get line elevations you have to manually save each elevation then add them to the plan set THEN export the dwg file.  I wish that they would program this to do automatically.  The mechanism is already there just code it to work. 

[John Rhodes]

Sounds like I better to stick to the old way just save the elevations and hatch. I have to send dwg too often to do otherwise. I also think auto-hatch based on the texture would be a huge step forward. It already shows the lines as it is; just need a way to remove the colored paint/texture itself and leave just its lines represented.

[Jon Churchill]

John,

If you are wanting the texture lines for cladding, add a profile to the material in the wall definition, give the texture some relief depth and use visible line for your Annotated view. Also good for 3D. Be it a live Annotated elevation or a saved (static) elevation paint texture from the model can be selected for just part of the drawing. Look under Paint > Model > Model Paint.

 

Jon

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[John Rhodes]

Jon,

Thanks for the information. I will take a look at this and see if I can work out what you are describing. 

 

- John

[Stephan Page]

This is awesome!  I've been looking for the same thing so thank you!  

 

Is there a way to do the same thing for roof shingles?  I can't seem to find how to do this

[John Rhodes]

I was going to ask the same thing. Couldn't find a way to make the shingle lines show.

[Stephan Page]

this is what i was told by support:  

 

The wall is using a profile that are creating the lines. Please switch from Model to an Annotated view and go to Draw>Paint and paint roof>shingles.

[John Rhodes]

I think that is just painting lines as always. No actual texture lines coming from the assigned texture like there is with the wall profile setting.

[Marlin Plett]

I've been playing in v2020 and trying these new elevation tools. However, it seems that these can only have color and paint which drinks ink like crazy. Is there a way or setup to have the texture lines show but not the colors? (Basically make a visible line drawing with the texture lines there so you don't have to use the paint tool but leave the colored fill off). Right now it looks like the only way to achieve this is the old way of just doing a save as .spd and painting in the lines which makes the new annotated tool useless unless you do all color/shaded elevation drawings. ThanksIf

If I understand your question properly - here is how I do it. Use shaded mode | In the Mode Options menu, under line options, check the box for 'display lines, display silhouette & display texture lines | Under Face Options chose 'Monochrome'. You can set these on the Planset to be independent of what your normal 3D...