topic Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts in Documentation

Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2023 07:59:21 GMT

Hi,

I have a section drawn with some solid color fills over the top. When I place it onto a layout, all of the fills only show up as black instead of the colours they should have. Why is it doing this?

Edit: By changing it to an "empty fill" with only the background color visible, the fill has changed from black to grey, and the outline is showing as the correct colour.

Thanks.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 05:11:24 GMT

The drawings in the layouts can have a different pen set to the one used in the views.
Have a look at the drawing settings to see what pen set it is using.

Barry.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 05:33:18 GMT

Thanks, Barry.

They are set as a different pen set, but the particular colours I have used are the same in both sets. Also if I change the drawing on the layout to be the same as when I am drawing the section, they still appear as black/grey.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 05:52:45 GMT

Are all colours coming out black in the layouts or just the fills?
If all then it could be this setting...
Barry.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Erwin Edel — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:19:00 GMT

Right click the placed view and pick open source view, are the fills ok there? If not, you might have set up some graphic override to display fills as black / solid.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:23:29 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions, Barry and Erwin. I have had a look at both of these things and neither seem to help in solving the problem. The only way I have managed to get any fills to show up as a non-grayscale on the layouts, are to be changing the fill to be an Image Fill, which is not particularly useful because I don't want to be adding a huge amount of image fills to cover all the different fills in all the different colours I might need.

I also tried placing the same fill onto a plan view and putting that view onto the layout which did make the fill appear coloured as intended. It only seems to be a problem when linking views from Sections or Elevations.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Erwin Edel — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:15:22 GMT

Make sure Trace and Reference is off in the Section view when checking it, it might have the option turned on to make fills look transparant.

Try picking up the settings from the floor plan placed drawing with ALT and inserting them in to the placed section drawing with CTRL + ALT.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Mats_Knutsson — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:55:55 GMT

I also get this occasionally in AC21. I just had internal training and out of nine people, two had this problem. They all used the same template. Everything seem correct but the views just turns black on the layout.

Re: Fills appearing as Black in Layouts

Airomin — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:31:00 GMT

Hello, possible solution.

Click the layout drawing and on the top tool bar, when drawing is selected, scroll through till you see black and white option and change it to defined by pen set, that should do it.