topic Re: Fills in Documentation

Fills

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 10:19:39 GMT

My solid colored fills in my floor plan have mysteriously become transparent.

I have experimented with changing the model view options, but it's not working so far.

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

Re: Fills

Djordje — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:25:24 GMT

Transparent background pen?

Changed Model view options?

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:36:41 GMT

I can't figure it out. Whatever setting got changed made all of the fills transparent. When I draw a new fill it is transparent too.

Re: Fills

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:19:19 GMT

What is the assigned Fill Category of these Fills (Drafting, Cover, Cut)? What are your Model View Option settings (these control the display of Fills)?

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:29:26 GMT

They are drafting fills. The model view option for the drafting fill is "As in Settings," and the Fill Background is set to "By Element Settings."

Re: Fills

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:38:27 GMT

Based on this post you may have stumbled upon a bug, or perhaps your file is corrupt???

Re: Fills

Dave Jochum — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:51:46 GMT

Jill,

Read through the thread I started and Laura linked above. I have still not solved the problem, and my only thought at this point is that it is a bug. Try replacing the solid fill with any other pen (other than the white that you are having the problem with) and see if your experience is the same as mine. My problem is not with a particular pen, but with all solid fills.

GS--Could you please weigh in on this?

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:00:07 GMT

Thanks. Nothing seemed to work -so I merged my old file into a new one where the fills do show.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:29:33 GMT

try to change layers

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:53:07 GMT

Thanks, but changing the layer is unfortunately not working.

Re: Fills

Barry Kelly — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:48:36 GMT

Jill wrote:
My solid colored fills in my floor plan have mysteriously become transparent.

I have experimented with changing the model view options, but it's not working so far.

Suggestions greatly appreciated.

The Trace & Reference has an option to show solid fills as transparent.
Have you got that option turned on maybe?
Fills will say they are the correct pen colours but will appear transparent on the screen.

Barry.

Re: Fills

Dave Jochum — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:49:30 GMT

Barry wrote:
The Trace & Reference has an option to show solid fills as transparent.
Have you got that option turned on maybe?
Fills will say they are the correct pen colours but will appear transparent on the screen.

Barry.

Barry,

You nailed my problem (http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=22319). Thank you. It's been extremely frustrating this last week dealing with this. Apparently very few people are aware of this, as there have been 846 views of these two threads and my reseller has started a tech request to GS.

I think this is a very poorly implemented feature of AC, as the icon does not indicate a position. I clicked it three times before my solid fills would display, with no change in the icon (such as shaded) to show its position. Problem number two is the horrible search tool in AC Help. I could find nothing on this searching and yet it is right there in the section dealing with Trace.

Arrrggh! --but thank you, again.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:27:21 GMT

Thank you Barry! That was exactly the problem.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:33:09 GMT

I am having this exact same problem. I have a high roog overlapping a lower roof in a roof plan and the cover fill background has totally disappeared.

I have tried every combination of pen color, layer, floor plan display, and model view option that I can find with no reults. The cover fill pen behaves normally.

At this point, I'm thinking it's a bug.

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:43:51 GMT

I have the exact same problem...only difference is my fills are grey not transparent. It must be a bug.

How can this be dealt with?

Re: Fills

Dave Jochum — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:17:35 GMT

Jeff & H,

Are you both sure it is not your trace settings?

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:35 GMT

Yes I am sure. It seams to be a bug of some kind.

Thanks

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:35:10 GMT

Strange you know....it's only when I set the background fill color to white that the fill shows grey, and yet when I select any other color (brown,black,red,etc) it is shown correctly.

It makes no logical sense whatsoever, this is why I suspect it is a bug.

Jeff

Re: Fills

Djordje — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:36:10 GMT

Did anybody check the Model View options for the fills?

Re: Fills

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:37:14 GMT

Yes, thanks. It is set to "as in settings"