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[Lane De Muro]

I like the Textured setting for elevation views, but since I only print in Black and White, a lot of it comes out looking like nothing more than an ink blob.
Next is Shaded, eh, ok, but no definition for shingles, siding, bricks, so not so good.

Which leaves me with Visible Lines and painting.  But painting can sometimes bleed into or over other lines or entities.

Anyone have a really good setting they would be willing to share?

 

Lane De Muro

[Joseph Smith]

I'm big on simplicity and white space, so don't care for elevations gobbed up with stuff (shingles/shading)......or color.

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[Jon Davis]

I typically don't use 3D elevations on plan sets. I create 2D elevations and then use paint to get my point across as to style/materials. 

[John Coyle]

I haven't been able to find a combination of settings that I really like in textured or shaded modes as of yet. In part because I just haven't had enough time to mess around with it, and as far as I'm aware most parties that I deal with that are printing sets do so in B&W only (permit dwgs, construction dwgs, estimating, etc.). So linework is my go to because many many moons ago I originally learned to draft by hand. And loved it. So I continue to develop a workflow in the 2D space that replicates that for the working drawings, using a combination of lineweights, hatch patterns, and sometimes shading.

 

On the front end of the process (design phase with the client) I share a lot of 3D and color images.

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[Jon Davis]

^ Those look really good John.

[Harlon Suttle]

Yes, doing two point perspectives by hand is lots of fun....what settings are you using and how are you getting the shadows on an Elevation....neat trick   thanks for sharing....been using SP for 20 plus years and learning new tricks all the time...again thanks for sharing