topic Re: Veneer wall in Documentation

Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:49:51 GMT

Hi there. How can I change a double brick veneer wall to a black solid veneer wall in my floor plan?

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 02:29:12 GMT

You mean fill in the cavity?

Graphic Overrides will help.

You should have a rule that turns all cut fills solid & black.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

mthd — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 02:51:56 GMT

The first part of this video should give you a generic method of how to create an external solid brick wall composite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCGJMHn2BwY

Hope this helps ?

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:38:01 GMT

I mean the double bricks should have shown in solid black.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:40:04 GMT

Barry, the graphic overrides not working for this case. could you please provide more assistance?

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:44:32 GMT

This should all be in the default template.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:50:04 GMT

Thanks Barry, how to show the cavity as a white colour?

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:11:58 GMT

Ignore above. Problem resolved. Please answer my question about window patterns in another post. Thank you so much

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:18:59 GMT

For that, I would just use an alternative pen set rather than Graphic Overrides.

Just have a pen set that turns the wall fill pen colours to black.

Of course this will affect anything else that uses those pen colours - so may not be the solution you are looking for.

But if the entire plan is to be black and white, that should not be a problem.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:29:34 GMT

BarrySorry for bothering you again. I set my floor plan to all black solid fills, but when I switch to another view and come back to the floor plan, it resets to the previous setting.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:39:47 GMT

What do you mean by the pen set colour? Do you mean the fill tool? If so, It takes me a while to outline the walls and then fill them in with a black color.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:50:18 GMT

Hi mths, thanks for sending this link but this does not answer my question. The question is how to change the double brick hatch to solid black in the floor plan? IIt should be displayed as a black solid outline.. Looks like this screenshot

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 05:44:29 GMT

I found a resolution, but when I return to the floor plan, it resets.

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:05:25 GMT

The Graphic Override combination is saved with the view settings.

So make sure your GO combination uses the correct rules and then make sure the view has the correct GO combination.

You can save two views, one with the black fill override and one normal.

Then you just place the view you need on the layout you want to publish.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:50:59 GMT

You can have as many pen sets as you want.

Again, the pen set used is saved with the view.

So have one view with a standard colour pen set, and another with black and white pens.

The pens use for the wall skins need to be black and the pen used for the cavity needs to be white.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:23:23 GMT

Thanks, Barry. I'm still not sure how to use this tool to black the walls. I've been working around the drawings but not working.

Re: Veneer wall

mthd — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:52:13 GMT

The method @Barry Kelly has recommended is the best method for creating plan views that might be shown to stake holders and not to builder's alone. So GOR’s is the preferred method. Keep the brick hatching on for the main model and use GOR’s like Barry has shown you above.

If you edit the composite wall fills to solid black in the composite dialogue they will remain as is. To get around this you could create another composite wall by duplicating the one you have and give it a different name and edit the brick wall fills to solid black.

I have never needed to use GOR’s because I haven’t taken the time to learn how to use them correctly but I will get around to it by learning from this thread hopefully lol.

Have Fun learning !

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:48:57 GMT

I don't know how to fill a wall with black color. When I select black color option from pens and colours, nothing happens. Can you please guide me on how to fill the wall with black color?

Re: Veneer wall

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:23:44 GMT

Sorry, I wasn't really clear on what to do.

You still need to use a graphic override, but one that just changes the fill type to solid.

Then change the pen set you are using.

If the cavity building material has a coloured pen - you need to make that white in the new pen set.

Otherwise if you change the building material so the cavity has a white fill (I would do that) then you leave that white pen as white in the new pen set.

So the GO will change all of the fills to solid.

Then the pen set will change the pens to black.

The GO also changes the cavity to a solid fill, but because the pen is whit, you won't see it print.

Barry.

Re: Veneer wall

Farnoush Pourmoradi — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:48:39 GMT

Thanks Barry for explaining. "I have followed all the steps you suggested, but the walls are still appearing as dark gray not black.