topic Re: Problem with custom symbol fill in Modeling

Problem with custom symbol fill

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:53:23 GMT

I'm trying to make a custom symbol fill (following these instructions : http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-18-int-reference-guide/documentation/fills/create-or-edit-symbol-fill/ ), and I'm running into a problem. When I go to paste my pattern into the fill editor, nothing shows. It just goes yellow and there is no number in the "motif size" boxes. No matter what I do to the spacing dimesnsions of the fill, nothing shows up. Thanks!

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Link — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:07:43 GMT

The yellow represents your Pattern Unit, which is the pattern that repeats itself within the fill. Yours is simply much too large. Scale it down. I recommend doing this at a scale of 1:1 and setting the origin on the project origin. It should only be a few inches/cm wide.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:26:52 GMT

Thanks for the response Link
I just tried resizing the fill, i scaled it way down so it's only a 70mm x70mm square (it was only 700 x 700 before) and the problem still persists. I've tried resetting the origin as well, and nothing is changing. I've even tried it in a brand new empty file, and same result

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Link — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:37:27 GMT

Does the fill pattern contain arcs? Is the screenshot identical after scaling it down? Uploading a zipped module file would certainly help.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 21:59:22 GMT

The fill pattern is super simple, just it's exact to a particular assembly we are using.. The tile size should be a 700 mm x 700mm square . I'm uploading a module file with the hatch pattern i'm trying to use. Thanks for the help!

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Link — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:08:22 GMT

Seems you missed step 1 in the process you referred to.

"Draw a pattern using Lines, Arcs and Hotspots."

You've used Polylines. You can reduce these to lines using the Edit> Reshape> Linework Consolidation... command or simply redraw them.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:28:33 GMT

Oh wow, that's embarrassing. That did the trick, thanks so much for your help

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Link — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:36:12 GMT

One of my first posts to (the old) ArchiCAD-Talk explained how I figured out that if you take your cursor all the way around the edge of the screen you could finally place it in the X coordinate of the Coordinate box. Then you could enter an X direction.

Someone replied with "why not hit the X key?"

THAT was embarrassing.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Problem with custom symbol fill

Geof Gainer — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:50:19 GMT

Hi, I've got the identical problem, but I'm using only lines and hotspots. It's a 20" square motif, and when I click paste it does change to 20" x 20", but no lines.