topic Re: Fills in Modeling

Fills

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:24:36 GMT

I would like to make a couple of fills that are empty, with different names, and I don't understand how I am going to do this.

Any help?

Re: Fills

Link — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:55:50 GMT

Use the Attribute Manager to Append the Empty Fill from the left pane to the right pane, rename it in the right pane, and Append it back to the left pane.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:41:29 GMT

Or go to Options > Element Attributes > Fills, select the fill you want to copy, hit the New button and then the "duplicate" option - rename as necessary.

Re: Fills

Link — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:51:42 GMT

s2art wrote:
Or go to Options > Element Attributes > Fills, select the fill you want to copy, hit the New button and then the "duplicate" option - rename as necessary.

Except for the Empty fill that not longer appears there!

That method could be used for Air Space, but that has subtle differences to the Empty Fill.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:02:59 GMT

Ha!. Whadayaknow. Below are my fills available when assigning to something (eg. wall settings) and from the fill types dialogue. I had never noticed the omission of the first group before in fill types.

By the way, I have a heck of a lot of fills I don't even know from whence they came. They seem to appear when you paste things from other files, whether the fill is actually part of what you paste or not (as do line types, pen sets etc). Anyone else find this annoying?

Re: Fills

Link — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:36:29 GMT

The definitive list is in your Attribute Manager. Any other list can be filtered by the fill type (Drafting/Cover/Cut) or by Graphisoft who has started to hide hard-coded fills, like Empty, Solid, Linear/Radial gradient.

And as you've noticed, fills and any other kind of attribute can be brougt in via merging, copy/pasting, drag&dropping (eg opening an external file in the Organizer), etc. This is why I cringe whenever I see people using an 'ongoing' template.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Fills

Rod Jurich — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:08:24 GMT

s2art wrote:
Ha!. Whadayaknow. /..... Anyone else find this annoying?

Spot on Stuart.
I guard mine closely. AM gets a real workout after viewing any DWG etc.
I've resorted to placing a "." before my line names except for Solid Line
and numbered all fills with symbol fills as for lines.
This way a quick visual check will reveal any 3rd party interloper
Some 3rd party add ons now even hijack category numbers in zones.