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Fill orientation in composites

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:18:38 GMT

Dear forum members,
I have a problem with fill orientation when working with composites. I am working on a small scale suburban developments, and I have more than one objects that are not all aligned with project origin. I am using composites for walls that have masonry fill (45 degrees to project origin). On layouts I have to show both large scale floor plan and small scale (every object separately with its entrance facing "down"). When rotating orientation, fills remain oriented to project origin (screenshot), and I want them to be oriented to my relative view. You can see in the left corner problem wall. Fill orientation in building material dialog doesn't do the job
Thanks in advance

Re: Fill orientation in composites

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:47:52 GMT

Hi, I don't remember if in AC17 is in the same place, but in AC19 in the Building Material is the option to do this. make a search in the Archicad Help to see where is in AC17 if is not there. I don't have AC17 here so I can't make sure of that, sorry.

Re: Fill orientation in composites

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:18:11 GMT

Hi,thanks for the quick reply.
That option is indeed located on the same place as in AC19.But,as I said in my earlier post,none of the Fill Orientation options in Building Material don't do the job. Element orientation fill doesn't do the job for me because masonry fill on intersecting walls isn't aligned to one another.I need masonry fill orientation to be user orientated,not project orientated because I have a problem when I save my view and place it on layout.You can see on screenshot 1 how it shouldn't look and on screenshot 2 how it should.
Thanks.

Re: Fill orientation in composites

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 07:18:40 GMT

Screenshot 2

Re: Fill orientation in composites

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:37:59 GMT

Ok. Got u.
I really don't know if there is a way to make the fill in a composite user oriented, but what I will do is (if possible), I'll do a new fill with the orientation needed and duplicate the brick material, one with the regular fill and one with the rotated fill, and then duplicate the composite and use the brick material with the rotated fill and apply that composite to the rotated walls.