Turning black lines to white
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I am modelling a building that has a parking lot outback. The client wants to focus in on the parking area. Is there any way to turn the black line that is dividing the parking spot into white. Also the road has the 4"x5' dividers running down the center (gray/black road), but the black outer line overpowers the white center.
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i tihnk im right in thinking that you cna just use the paint bucket tool to paint lines as you would faces. bit more deail: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=609
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You could have a look at the way Paul Russam does roadmarkings. Looks quite good too!
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This is the same as with 3D text - viewing from a distance, the black edges override the coloured faces.
You can either use the color lines by material way that Remus mentioned or you can also hide them away say onto a hidden layer (or use tzhe hide tool but then you'd need to group the entities). -
Thanks guys
I worked out a way I made a layer called 'parking-lines' and layed out the parking and road markings, then I filled it in on another layer 'site'. Then I turned the 'parking-lines' layer off. -
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How did you select lines by material?
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Go to the Styles window > in model > default style (I guess you are modelling in it) > edit tab > at the bottom you can see the dropdown menu where you can set the lines "by material".
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Got it, works well
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Cool. BTW that was the first hint given by Remus in this thread...
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I usually make my parking lines 100mm wide by say 5500mm long and construct one of them using the rectangle tool.... I then fill the rectangle with White..... then I copy the White filled recatangle to create each of the carparking spaces and then soften (hide) the black lines.
You are then left with a 100mm wide white line with no black line borders.
Seems to work well but it can be tedious if you have a very large carpark.
Cheers,
Gareth
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