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elevation lineweight

Anonymous
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Hi everyone,
I'm wondering how to set line weight for elevation.
I've done a forum search but could not find a right answer for my case.
It is this: I wanna set my wall outline in elevation bolder than my curtain wall lines. I've tried the property's setting of both but it doesnt come out right in elevation.
Attached is screen-shot.
Please help or help me with a link.
Many thanks for all.
Cheers,

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Anonymous
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i think this may involve some complex pen set issue.

you may simply trace again the outline via line tools

btw, nice design!!
Thomas Holm
Booster
Set the item's Uncut pen to what you want, and turn off the elevation setting's Uniform pen for uncut items.
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
Anonymous
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I wanna set my wall outline in elevation bolder than my curtain wall lines.
I think Uncut pen may be not suitable for this situation
Dwight
Newcomer
Do you refer to the cheap draftsman's trick of outlining the building with a heavy line?
Dwight Atkinson
Thomas Holm
Booster
Dwight wrote:
Do you refer to the cheap draftsman's trick of outlining the building with a heavy line?
Only expensive draftsmen did that.
AC4.1-AC26SWE; MacOS13.5.1; MP5,1+MBP16,1
Anonymous
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tranthainguyen

have you show the line weight view?
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Anonymous
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Hi angus and all,
Thanks for your help.
I have a better understand of how to do it.
Yes I turned all the option True Lineweight. I can get control of Wall Pencolor (therefore, lineweight) in elevation. However I can't get control of curtain wall(window) pencolor (lineweight) in elevation. Do you know how to manipulate it ?

As for the Marked Distant Area, it works in its way, but still I can't get control/modify of the pencolor (lineweight). Maybe I'm missing something.

Thanks in advance for your help.
NGUYEN
Anonymous
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Try turning on the vectorial sun shadows. They give the elevation much better depth than line weights
Djordje
Ace
tranthainguyen wrote:
However I can't get control of curtain wall(window) pencolor (lineweight) in elevation. Do you know how to manipulate it?
Set Uncut line pens to the desired colour.
Djordje



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