topic Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9 in Modeling

Custom fills no longer working in AC9

kevin b — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:18:30 GMT

We have made some custom fills, which have been in use probably since AC7, which no longer seem to work. Although other custom fills we have made do work. By not working I mean that they do not show up in the plans as they should, they show up completely empty. In the Fill Types dialog, everything appears OK, the fill appears as it should in the preview window. I have discovered that if I rotate the fills (ie. change the angle in the Fill Types Dialog) they work but its hit or miss, some I need only change 1 degree other only show up if I rotate them 45 degrees, which is no good for some of these to be used as intended. If I open the project in AC8.x they appear OK. It only seems to happen to a few of Fills which I could remake but am looking for the root of the problem here. The Fills in question are a couple of different sizes of checkerboard patterns (only the orthogonal ones, the 45s are fine) and a wide, 45 degree band. At least these are the only ones I've run across so far. As for display options, I have checked to make sure I am set with Vectorial. They do in fact show up "properly" in bitmap but the bitmap pattern is obviously useless. Anyone else run into this, no a fix other than remaking the fills, etc?

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

kevin b — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:08:13 GMT

As an aside, how long do I remain a "New Member"?

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

kevin b — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:08:43 GMT

And is this how you guys get your post count so high?

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:46:29 GMT

kevin wrote:
As an aside, how long do I remain a "New Member"?

kevin wrote:
And is this how you guys get your post count so high?

Takes 50 posts to move up to Junior and, I think about 150 to move to the next level; and

Yes... that's how some post counts get

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:47:03 GMT

woodster wrote:
kevin wrote:
As an aside, how long do I remain a "New Member"?

kevin wrote:
And is this how you guys get your post count so high?
Takes 50 posts to move up to Junior and, I think about 150 to move to the next level; and

Yes... that's how some post counts get

so high !!!

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:24:01 GMT

Check if this helps
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=4134&highlight=

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

kevin b — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:42:30 GMT

That is a similar problem in that the fills that do not work, do show the background color as a solid fill.

I did however check my WE settings and I DO NOT have "Use Open GL" checked on. Just to make sure that wasn't the problem, I tried checking it on and tried all of the settings, checkboxes, etc and none of them had any effect.

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Dwight — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:59:09 GMT

You'll note the higher post counts among people who actually answer questions on the forum.

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:04:51 GMT

Dwight wrote:
You'll note the higher post counts among people who actually answer questions on the forum.

Especially if you're Canadian, huh?

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Dwight — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:15:48 GMT

Way up here in the North country, snowed in until after spring breakup as we are, chewing bannock and packing muktuk, there's not much else to do but answer ArchiCAD TALK problems once the squirrels are geeked, the wood is chopped and the water drawn.

At least our country isn't named after a bird.

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Dwight — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:18:14 GMT

Can kevin b contact me privately - I will test those fills...

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Vitruvius — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:39:45 GMT

Dwight wrote:

At least our country isn't named after a bird.

But our national animal is a rodent...

Cheers

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Dwight — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 02:47:27 GMT

But they are good at making dams, so don't be ashamed.
Need to stop a creek? Call a beaver.

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:34:58 GMT

Dwight wrote:
At least our country isn't named after a bird.

... far better to have an internationally degusted bird named after your country than have your country named 'accidentally' after the indigenous word for village. Not that the alternatives in 1867 were all that sparkling.

2-1

Stuart

Re: Custom fills no longer working in AC9

Dwight — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:12:06 GMT

I can see that you have me on this one.
I am no match for you.