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[ashley miners]

hey guys im new to using softplan. ive completed my plan and in the elevations i want to be able to see the vertical lines of the metal roof and horizontal liones of the wall cladding. i dont want it coloured like in texture i want it to just be like the visible line option but showing the cladding and roofing.( also if u use brickwork etc) is there a option i can use or change to help do this. sorry if its a silly question ive only just purchased and was using archicad prior. attached are some pics of what I'm trying to achieve. cheers ash

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[Steve and Carla Farnam]

Ashley you will want, in 2D when assigning materials, to use  the Draw>Paint>Paint options

to fill each area of siding, roofing etc. You will be able to adjust the distance between the

metal roof ribs by adjusting the horizontal spacing percentage, adjust the siding width by

adjusting the vertical percentage, ie; 4" Horizontal @ 1.25% = 5" Horizontal Siding. Each

area to be filled by a paint will need to be cleaned up to create a closed area.

[ashley miners]

will this leave it with lines no colours and tectures??? attached is what it looks like atm. I just need to add the cladding and roof detail in line form.

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[Keith Almond]

Use PAINT > PAINT and choose a pattern. This will just paint lines into the available space. NO COLOUR and NO TEXTURE.

[Steve and Carla Farnam]

Ashley, What Keith and I said

[Heath Foster]

Are you using the live annotated elevations or did you generate the elevations?

[Jon Davis]

Do what they said above. Also, I found the best look for 2D elevations by adjusting the pen settings, changing pen 3 to .2 black and pen 4 to .1 grey

and then setting "paint" under shapes to pen 4... This makes all the lines darker, and all your paint lighter... just looks better when printed, in my opinion.