"Formats" palette

Hidden Line Image in Destination Document palette

You can open the Formats palette while generating a hidden-line image. All you need to do is click the Set button under Formats (in the Representation area) of the Hidden Line Image in Destination Document palette.

Edges tab

Preview

The preview shows the effects of your settings.

Adjacent edges

Eliminate

Select this option to define the maximum angle of joint. In addition, you can define settings in the Adjacent edges for architectural components area.

Maximum angle of joint

You can specify an angle up to which surfaces are merged in order to make curves appear smoother. Setting a large angle causes curves to appear as a silhouette.

Adjacent edges of archit. components

You can specify how adjacent edges of architectural components look. This setting is only available if you have selected the Eliminate option. Otherwise, both options are active by default.

When Display between different surface elements or Display when material changes is selected, adjacent edges are visible when surface elements change (hatching style, pattern, fill) or when materials change within a component.
Note: You can decide whether you want to use surface elements or materials. To do this, open the Options on the Components and architecture page and select the setting you want to use in the Components area. Consequently, Allplan only offers the appropriate option.

When Display with round components is selected, adjacent edges of round components (wall, column, chimney) are visible. This option is usually switched off.

Display edges

Visible edges

When you select this check box, you can see all visible edges. The program uses the format properties you define here.
When you select the check box for Pen, Line, Color or Layer, the elements are displayed with the format properties set in this palette. Otherwise, the elements retain the format properties with which they were drawn.

Hidden edges

When you select this check box, you can also see hidden edges. The program uses the format properties you define here.
When you select the check box for Pen, Line, Color or Layer, the elements are displayed with the format properties set in this palette. Otherwise, the elements retain the format properties with which they were drawn.

Clipping lines tab

Preview

The preview shows the effects of your settings.

Display section edges

Display boundary lines

When you select this check box, boundary lines display notional edges. These are visible edges that the program creates by intersecting the components with the section object and that do not represent the boundary of an area.
You can specify the projection of boundary lines in the unit of length selected. In addition, you can select the Pen, Line, Color, and Layer for these lines.
When this check box is not selected, these edges are not visible.

Tip: To display notional edges in the same way as visible edges, select the check box, enter 0.00 for the projection, and define the format properties for the boundary lines so that they match those of the visible edges.

Display section edges with a thick line

Select this option to display intersected elements with a thick line. You can choose to apply a thick line to outer edges only or to all edges. Define the Pen, Line, Color, and Layer for the thick line.
This setting only applies to components with hatching, patterns, or fills. Roof coverings, rafters, other timber elements, and smart symbols are not affected.

Hidden and intersected edges

Show edges

When you select this check box, the program uses the Pen, Line, Color, and Layer that you define here to display hidden edges resulting from the intersection of the components with the section object.
If this check box is not selected, hidden and intersected edges are not visible.

Note: Hidden and intersected edges are only visible when you have selected the Display hidden and intersected edges check box on the Edges tab. The program displays intersected edges that are neither hidden nor in the clipping plane in the same way as boundary lines.

Section surface elements

Surface elements from components

Select this option to display the intersected areas of architectural components and 3D objects with their surface elements assigned.

3D object without surface elements / hidden surfaces

You can specify how the surfaces of intersected 3D objects to which no surface elements are assigned and hidden areas look.

Finish elements tab

Preview

The preview shows the effects of your settings.

Representation

Options finish elements

Click to open the Options on the Rooms tab. There you can change the settings for displaying finish elements.
Select which finish elements are to be displayed, define the values for the Minimum total thickness and the Minimum thickness per layer that a finish area must have in order to be visible in hidden-line images. Then select whether vertical finish elements are to be displayed with a symbolic thickness or their real thickness.

Note: Allplan displays each layer of a finishing surface.

Apply surface elements to finishing surfaces

When you select this check box, sections display the finishing surfaces with the hatching styles, patterns, fills, or style areas you applied by using the Floor, Ceiling, or Room tool - Finish tab.

format properties

Define the Pen, Line, Color, and Layer format properties for the Finish lines.

Buttons in the border of the palette

You can find the following tools in the lower border of the palette:

• Load favorite: You can select and load a format favorite file (*.sfrmnfx) that you have already saved.
• Save as a favorite: You can save all current definitions as a format favorite (*.sfrmnfx).
• Restore basic settings: You can restore the default settings.