On-Screen Options

(Options > Work Environment > On-Screen Options)

This dialog box has three panels:

On-Screen Options

Workspace Colors

Energy Evaluation Model Review Colors

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On-Screen Options

Show Ghost Bounding Box of Objects, Columns, Figures and Drawings

If this box is checked, the bounding box of Door, Window, Object, Lamp, Column, Figure and Drawing elements that you wish to place will follow the cursor.

Show Contours on Favorites and Library Part Preview

Check this option if you prefer to see contours on 3D Preview for Favorites and Library Parts.

Display Editing Plane During Editing Operations Only

If you check this box, the 3D Window Editing Plane will appear only during the time you are actively editing in the 3D window (provided that the “Editing Plane Display” toggle at View > Editing Plane Display is turned on.) When you are done with the operation, the Editing Plane disappears.

Automatic Pen Color Visibility Adjustment for Model Views

When this box is checked, then black pens will be shown as white on your ARCHICAD screen if the luminance value of a particular background color falls below a threshold value - that is, if your background is sufficiently dark.

Use uniform color for Master items on Layouts

Check this to display all Master items using a single color on Layouts. To choose the color, double-click the color field.

If you leave this box unchecked, the element’s own colors will be applied.

Use uniform color to highlight inverted elements

Check this box to display inverted or invalid elements using a single color.

To choose a color, double-click the color field. This highlight is an on-screen attribute only; it will not be seen on printed/published output.

Inverted or invalid elements may include

Inverted construction elements (those whose top elevation falls below their bottom elevation, as a result of changing story levels affecting top linked elements)

Stairs whose top-linked story height has changed, yet the stair parameters are defined in a way that the stair cannot be adjusted to the new story height automatically

Some construction elements (e.g. Beams, Columns) in projects using the Legacy Intersection Preferences. If “Legacy Intersection and Surface Methods” is checked at Project Preferences, certain geometries (based on new tool functions in later versions of ARCHICAD) are not supported.

See Legacy Preferences.

Feedback Graphics color

Use the color chooser to set a custom color for bounding boxes and rubber band effects shown during editing operations.

Source Marker Color

Use the color chooser to set a custom color to highlight source markers. (To turn Source Marker Highlight on or off, use View > On-Screen View Options.)

For more information, see Source Marker Highlight.

Line Type and Pen of Marker Elements’ on-screen-only parts

Use these controls to set a line type and color for the on-screen parts of all marker elements. These are: Section Limit Line, Elevation Line, Section and Elevation Distant Line, Interior Elevation Line and Limit Line, and Detail/Worksheet Boundary Line.

Workspace Colors

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Teamwork

Choose preferred color for highlighting elements depending on their ownership, in Teamwork projects only.

See Colored Workspaces.

3D Compare

Set colors to display model differences in the 3D Compare window.

See Workspace Colors for Model Compare.

Issue

Set colors to display Issue elements in the model depending on their category.

See Issue Handling.

Energy Evaluation Model Review Colors

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Choose your preferred color for highlighting model structures according to their function for the Energy Evaluation process. (Building structures and openings are shown in these colors when you click Show in 3D in the Model Review palette of Energy Evaluation.)

See Customize Energy Model Review Colors.

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