Change color of layers in PlanCad.

Thorvald · 25. Juni 2007

Hi!

When I make wall drawings, I make Dietrichs export the drawing with one block per layer (often 2 layers - timber and boards). When I put in layer 0 in plancad drawing the line are brown, and that's fine, and the lines for layer -1 are black. And then I change it to grey. How to change so layer -1 is automatic grey? And maybe how to change so layer -1 is automatic shown with solid brown hatch in PlanCad? I don't know if I would use that, but I have to see it in action to decide.

Jens Krause · 25. Juni 2007

Hi Thorvald,

this is exactly what the drawing templates are made for: Take an existing plan in which you have set the layers the way you want them, clear the contents of the view ports (3-05), set the scale of the view ports back to 1:0 (7-1) and save the drawing as a template (1-6-1).
If you use this template now, the layers are used in the same way as in your original drawing.
There is no way to automatically "hatch" a complete layer. I am not quite sure how this should look like. Could you make an example?

Best regards,

Jens

Der_Planer · 25. Juni 2007

Sometimes it would be helpful to see a colored plan that looks like the input screen:

Jens Krause · 26. Juni 2007

OK, I put it on the wish list. But it is recommended only for printers with "extra large fuel tanks" ;o)

Regards,

Jens

Der_Planer · 26. Juni 2007

no problem

Jens Krause · 26. Juni 2007

I searched for your thread about your "Turbo printer" but I could not find it any more...

Regards,

Jens

Thorvald · 26. Juni 2007

I am not completely sure if you actually answered my question.

Now: When I bring in a drawing, a stored image, for example from layer -1 in construction program, then the lines are black. Are there no setting to tell the program, that it should create grey lines for this layer.

So: When I bring in a drawing, a stored image, for example from layer -1 in construction program, then the lines are grey.

Der_Planer · 26. Juni 2007

Hi Thorvald,

the lines in my plan have the same color as the beams and boards have in the model:

Thorvald · 26. Juni 2007

Aha, so maybe I can change the colorsettings in Dietrichs, somewhere?

doug · 26. Juni 2007

Hi Thorvald,
I think, you mean this: Middle Mouse, Volume information and then colour set (I don´t know the name in the english version) :wink:

Der_Planer · 26. Juni 2007

No Doug,

this will not be enough.
I changed the color set in my material database: OSB=red, DWD=blue, FCL=cyan...

Jens Krause · 26. Juni 2007

Hi Thorvald,

there are two ways to achieve "personalized" colours in PlanCAD:

-With the way I described above (changing the layers in the drawing template) you change only the way the lines are displayed and printed in PlanCAD
-By changing the colour set, you change the way beams and lines are displayed in PlanCAD AND in Dicam/ DiWall/ Roof Construction etc.

Regards,

Jens

Thorvald · 26. Juni 2007

# Jens Krause: Where to change the color set in your option (2)??

Der_Planer · 26. Juni 2007

Didn't you read what Doug and I wrote? :roll:

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