topic Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab in Documentation

2D Fill not alligned to slab

gedzior84 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:28:23 GMT

Hello!

One of the easy questions I think!

How come my 2D fill is not willing to allign to my slab?

I want to have a slab of insulation - is there any way to make the 2D fill fit into the section of this element?

Thank you!

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Steve Jepson — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:41:10 GMT

Could be a Building Materials setting? Try Fit to Skin.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

gedzior84 — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:38:35 GMT

Unfortunately it doesn't work the way I would wish it to work, since the fill is displayed in the way I l've presented on the s reenshots. This concerns the section views, not the plan views. And does not affect the composite structures. The slab I have modelled is a single layered one.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Lingwisyer — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 02:00:17 GMT

If you need to scale your fill, use the 3rd option.

Ling.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Steve Jepson — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:09:36 GMT

? Yes - the setting I am showing you does control how the patterns are fit to skin or to an origin in a Section. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ilMVxnmaU

Can you think of what makes this work? 🙂 in the video, they are both moved together up and down in a SECTION view. One has the Building Material Fill Orientation set to "Fit to Skin", the other Building Material Fill Orientation is set to "Project Origin" . In case the video does not work or some, the Fill/Building Material in one slab changes as the slabs are moving up and down, the other one does not. This is controlled by Building Material settings.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Lingwisyer — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:22:56 GMT

Oh, that is an actual slab element not a 2D fill... Doesn't that setting require the use of composites? Only walls in Plan do not "require" this. So the issue here would be that Ged has used a Basic Slab rather than a Single Layer Composite?

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Steve Jepson — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:23:49 GMT

The little trick is to use a (1) skin Composite 🙂 Then the Building Material setting for Fill Orientation can be set to "Fit to Skin" so it can stay looking like you want it.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

Barry Kelly — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:43:30 GMT

Yes it must be a composite for the 'fit to skin' option to work.

And as Steve says, you can have a single skin composite.

Barry.

Re: 2D Fill not alligned to slab

gedzior84 — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:36:25 GMT

Yes!

Thank you all for your replies.

The answer for my question is that this option doesn't work for a single layered elements in section views. You must use a 1 layered composite structure for the fill to allign to the layer.

That is a pity in my opinion, but hey, it works!