Year: 2016

Pen Sets, Part Nine: Graphic Overrides

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This is the ninth post in my endless series on Pens and Pen Sets in Archicad. In this article I’ll cover how Graphic Overrides have affected Pens and Pen Sets and then discuss a number of examples. I’m assuming you’ve read many or all of the previous Pen Set articles. If something I discuss below references a previous post, I’ve tried to note that. If you want to take the entire Pen Sets Journey starting with my views dating back to Archicad 11, here are links to all the previous posts:

12 Steps For Starting a New Project in Archicad

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When designing by hand, the steps to starting a new project are simple: grab a writing implement, a surface to write on, and start being creative. As long as you have a pencil, pen, crayon… and a notebook, napkin, scrap of plywood… you are ready to go. If you are doing production drawings by hand (please tell me very few people still do this), the process isn’t much more complicated. You select a sheet of velum or mylar with your title block pre-printed on it, add a few details to the title block, and pick where you want to start.