structure 8. The outside edge of the section tail is controlled by Section Marks > Thin Lines. Change it from 1 to 8 as well. This should take care of the back end of the section, time for the head. While editing Object Styles change Section Marks Projection line weight to 8 to match the others. When you click OK to close the dialog all lines in the section mark should now be 0.5mm wide. Lastly we have the dimension style. Pick on a dimension element and open the Type Properties. First in the Graphics area change the Tick Mark to Diagonal 3/32” and right below that change the Line Weight to 3 (0.18mm). Now bump the Tick Mark Line Weight to 6. Then modify the Dimension Line Extension to 1/16”.
it is easier to see what is wrong here. From the section view we can see that the floor is black – not magenta. And only one floor category is black so the Cut line weight is the spot to edit. Change that to pen 8. Once you return to the section view the profile of the deck and concrete is now nice and heavy. Again back to the Object Styles dialog, this time slide on down to Structural Column. Now the column we see is not black and it is not a stick symbol so the slot to change is probably going to be the main Project line weight. Change that to pen 4 and make it black. After the column, on to the beam. Go down to Structural Framing. Here are many, many category slots for framing. The difference is that we are not looking at the beam in a coarse detail level. The main Structural Framing Projection line weight is the one we need, change it to pen 4 and black as well. But we do see 2 beams here, and one is in section. The Cut line weight needs bumping up as well to pen 7 (0.45mm).
Figure 3- A typical default section view’s appearance
That will wrap up the changes to get this plan looking they way we prefer. Next is dealing with a section view. At the north edge of the plan is a section mark. In figure 3 this section view is shown. Now it doesn’t look like much, even after all the work we have been doing, largely because the lines in this view generally belong to cut elements and other than columns we have not addressed any cut line weights yet. So once again we open the Object Styles dialog. You certainly don’t want to go through this effort at the view level, via the Visibility/Graphics dialog, or you will have to repeat the edits with every section. From the Object Styles dialog find the Floors category and change what? Well this is where the previous work described in the Fall issue’s article is beginning to pay off because winter_2010
Figure 4- The corrected section components are clear now
As you can see in Figure 4, the various components that make up the steel and deck are significantly more pronounced. Are we done for sections? Not really, in fact, more can be done now for this model itself. And we do have another section in this model and Figure 5 shows the problem. We modified the Object Style for floors but in the section we looked at, the parallel condition was not visible. In Figure 5 we have other layers in the floor system to correct. Back to the Object Styles dialog and expand Floors. Now depending on your graphic www.AUGIaecedge.com
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