Turning black lines to white

remus

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

juju

You could have a look at the way Paul Russam does roadmarkings. Looks quite good too!

Gaieus

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).

aussie

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.

Jean Lemire

Hi folks.

See attached SU file for ideas.

Just ideas.

Road markings.skp

aussie

How did you select lines by material?

Gaieus

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".

aussie

Got it, works well

Gaieus

Cool. BTW that was the first hint given by Remus in this thread...

Gareth

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