https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89445#M46738 Keith,<BR /> from your terminology I assume you are coming from an Autocad background where this behaviour is inherent?<BR /> <BR /> Djordie,<BR /> I think the question was is there a way to make this happen in a single operation (i.e. one click)? While I greatly prefer AC's fills to AutoCad's hatches it can be a bit annoying to magic wand a region with many holes and have to go back and remove the holes as a separate operation, magic wanded or otherwise. <BR /> <BR /> I would be interested to find out if anyone has a better way. Wed, 07 May 2008 03:45:07 GMT Erich 2008-05-07T03:45:07Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89443#M46736 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>Did I dream this?<BR /> <BR /> I thought there was a way of 'magic-wanding' a fill, which would pick up 'islands' automatically.<BR /> <BR /> Currently, if I magic wand within a polygon, other areas within that polygon are ignored. Do I have to cut out the 'islands' manually one a time, or is there an option somewhere?<BR /> <BR /> Keith<BR /> <BR /> Archicad Ver 11 on MAC OSX 10.4.8</T></DIV> Tue, 06 May 2008 10:50:46 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89443#M46736 Anonymous 2008-05-06T10:50:46Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89444#M46737 You can cut them out with the magic wand too ... Tue, 06 May 2008 16:55:07 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89444#M46737 Djordje 2008-05-06T16:55:07Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89445#M46738 Keith,<BR /> from your terminology I assume you are coming from an Autocad background where this behaviour is inherent?<BR /> <BR /> Djordie,<BR /> I think the question was is there a way to make this happen in a single operation (i.e. one click)? While I greatly prefer AC's fills to AutoCad's hatches it can be a bit annoying to magic wand a region with many holes and have to go back and remove the holes as a separate operation, magic wanded or otherwise. <BR /> <BR /> I would be interested to find out if anyone has a better way. Wed, 07 May 2008 03:45:07 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89445#M46738 Erich 2008-05-07T03:45:07Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89446#M46739 doesn't it depend on whether or not you magic wand the fill region or the fill boundary? i must add that i'm not quite sure about this - magic wanding regions is slightly hit-and-miss at the best of times so i only use it when i'm feeling super lazy.<BR /> <BR /> logically i would expect that if you space-click the fill <I></I><S><I><I></I></I></S>boundary<E></E> (half-magic-wand) it would simply trace the boundary only and ignore the holes. likewise, if you space-click the fill <I></I><S><I><I></I></I></S>area<E></E> (full-magic-wand) it would trace the exact area of the fill including holes . . .<BR /> <BR /> i'm not in front of AC so i can't check to make sure . . . <IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/emojis/icon_eek.gif" style="display : inline;" /> <BR /> <BR /> ~/archiben Wed, 07 May 2008 06:39:19 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89446#M46739 __archiben 2008-05-07T06:39:19Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89447#M46740 This be the problem. It can't be done at all AFAIK.<BR /> <BR /> FWIW GS is aware of it.<BR /> <BR /> Cheers,<BR /> Link. Wed, 07 May 2008 06:45:55 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89447#M46740 Link 2008-05-07T06:45:55Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89448#M46741 Thanks for your comments, guys.<BR /> <BR /> I'm resigned to cutting them out individually. At least I found a way to copy the 'holes' where the shapes were the same.<BR /> <BR /> Keith<BR /> <BR /> Archicad ver 11 on Mac OSX 10.4.8 Thu, 08 May 2008 15:57:56 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/Fills-with-holes/m-p/89448#M46741 Anonymous 2008-05-08T15:57:56Z