suppress shingles in elevation

[Skip_D]

Hi,

Is there a way to supress the outer layer of a wall, or roof, in elevations?  My 2d elevations look too busy with cedar siding and roof shingles; I'd rather it not show, or if it does, with a much lighter line weight or light gray.  

thanks,

George

[Adam_Gibson]

How you tried converting the elevation to CAD using the "CAD Detail from View" command? Then you can delete anything you'd like. Alternately, you could create walls or roofs without the surfaces. 

[PitMan71]

Hey skip

 

How I would do this.... Copy the material definition to your user catalog and rename it something to dilineate it from the original. Once this is done you can then open nd edit the material definition. Once in the editor, the top panel is "Pattern". Under the pattern section, change it from hatch (or whatever it is set to) to "no pattern". This should keep the image in the 3d viewer while suppressing the hatch texture. Give this a go and see if its what you were needing.

[tundra_dweller]

You can also toggle all the material patterns on or off in 3D views.

[Chrisb222]

1 hour ago, Skip_D said:

Hi,

Is there a way to supress the outer layer of a wall, or roof, in elevations?  My 2d elevations look too busy with cedar siding and roof shingles; I'd rather it not show, or if it does, with a much lighter line weight or light gray.  

thanks,

George

 

If you're talking about how your elevations look in layout, personally I prefer using plot lines and setting the edge lines to black, and the pattern lines to a thinner gray.

 

 

[GeneDavis]

I prefer elevations sent to layout as plot lines and then when in layout, the pattern lines set to 1 and color gray not black.

[tundra_dweller]

Yep I like to use the same method as Chris & Gene. Sometimes for basic prelim versions I will toggle off all the patterns in elevation views when we aren't sure of materials yet.

[Skip_D]

Thank you everyone; this has been very helpful!

[PitMan71]

6 minutes ago, Skip_D said:

Thank you everyone; this has been very helpful!

I agree. even I learned some things.:D