topic Re: Display options Fill controls in Modeling

Display options Fill controls

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:41:02 GMT

Hi folks,

I want to have some drafting fills show vectorial hatching, and not have my wall construction fills on.

When I go to display options, and set

Cut fills: Seperators only
Drafting fills: Vectorial Hatching

I get the seperator lines, but no drafting fills.

Is there some bizarre and burried over-ride switch that says "when cut fill are hidden, all fills are hidden"?

Thanks.

-Nathan

Re: Display options Fill controls

TomWaltz — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:32:14 GMT

The only thing I can think of is if some of the manual fills are not set to "Drafting Fill?" Maybe they were set to "Cut Fill" or "Cover fill" by mistake?

I have wall cut fills off with drafting fills on all the time, so it can be done.

Re: Display options Fill controls

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:32:33 GMT

You Rock!!!

Just out of curiosity, why would one be able to lable a drafting fill a cut or cover fill? (Actually, I realize there is probably some drawing exception somewhere that will make that really handy...)

thanks.

-Nathan

Re: Display options Fill controls

__archiben — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:53:47 GMT

Nathan wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why would one be able to lable a drafting fill a cut or cover fill? (Actually, I realize there is probably some drawing exception somewhere that will make that really handy...)

i think you just answered your own question.

my question: how come you drew fills that were labelled cut or cover?

cheers
~/archiben

Re: Display options Fill controls

TomWaltz — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:42:41 GMT

Nathan wrote:
You Rock!!!

Just out of curiosity, why would one be able to lable a drafting fill a cut or cover fill? (Actually, I realize there is probably some drawing exception somewhere that will make that really handy...)

thanks.

-Nathan

Probably so you could draw in manual hatches to act like walls or like slab/roof infill... maybe to clean up a plan situation or a ceiling plan?

Re: Display options Fill controls

James Murray — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:27:27 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
my question: how come you drew fills that were labelled cut or cover?

It's easy to get your fill tool accidentally set to 'Cut', by Opt(Alt)+clicking on a fill in a drawing section or detail window.

Re: Display options Fill controls

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:31:37 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Nathan wrote:
You Rock!!!

Just out of curiosity, why would one be able to lable a drafting fill a cut or cover fill? (Actually, I realize there is probably some drawing exception somewhere that will make that really handy...)

thanks.

-Nathan
Probably so you could draw in manual hatches to act like walls or like slab/roof infill... maybe to clean up a plan situation or a ceiling plan?

These Fill and Line Categories are also good when saving a Section/Elevation as DWG/DXF. You might have drawn 2D Fills and Lines over your model in S/E Window, and you would probably want these fills and lines to go to the same layers than lines generated from the model will go in the resulting DWG/DXF file.
For example, if you draw a fill over a Wall/Slab intersection in S/E, the Fill should belong to the Cut Fill category because the fills generated from the section of the Wall and Slab will be in Cut Fill category.

Re: Display options Fill controls

Erika Epstein — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 01:13:22 GMT

Great tip Laszlo. Thanks