topic Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan in Documentation

Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Gabriel Cristea — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:35:00 GMT

I've recently added in a few new building materials and assigned them to the wall composites.

My goal now is to have the 2D / GA plan show minimal detail, just a solid colour instead of a hatch. Current view after the building material changes:

Before this change, the walls used to look like this (ignore the thicker lines, this is a screenshot from an exported drawing):

Any way I can achieve this without having to simplify my building materials or wall composites?

Operating system used: Windows 10

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

CosminF — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:16:50 GMT

Hi,

You might want to look into graphic overrides - you can override the cut fill and cut fill pens as you wish and save it without affecting the original drawing.

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/24/int/_AC24_Help/050_ViewsVB/050_ViewsVB-134.htm

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Gabriel Cristea — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:47:02 GMT

I've tried that and it somewhat works but it only appears to allow me to set one colour for the entire wall, it cannot have multiple. I tried to create 3 separate rules, 1 for plasterboard, 1 for timber frame and 1 for insulation all with different colours but the graphic override only takes the colour of 1 of them into account at a time.

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

CosminF — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:51:35 GMT

It should be able to do your intended overrides. Can you maybe share one of the rules you made?

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Gabriel Cristea — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:43:29 GMT

This is one of the rules, and below you have all 3 rules. You can see the different colors set as examples; in this configuration, the walls are pale orange, ignoring the green and black overrides.

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

CosminF — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:44:30 GMT

Thank you!

I tried to replicate your situation and I'm facing the same issues:

After some searching I have found this wishlist item, and apparently this is not a current feature, and has been requested previously: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Visualization/Feature-request-Graphic-Override-for-building-materials/td-p/650106

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Gabriel Cristea — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:59:42 GMT

That's really disappointing and defeats the purpose of the building materials... Thanks for your time in trying to help find a solution.

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

cuba — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:45:52 GMT

You can opt to only override the fills and not the colours

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Mahmoud Qenawi — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:01:51 GMT

Sorry deleted.

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

Lingwisyer — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:51:11 GMT

As Cuba has shown, Graphic Overrides affect elements in their entirety, so you cannot override both the Fill and the Pen else the Composite will look uniform. Ideally, the different materials that make up your Composite use diffferent Fill Foreground Pens allowing you to control the colours within your Pen Set after you've overriden the Fill in your Graphic Override.

Ling.

Re: Building Materials - hide fills in 2d plan

mthd — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:35:32 GMT

I am no expert with GO’s but I would try MVO’s first and see if you can manipulate one of those views first. I guess you may have already tried that approach ? Might even need to use both MVO’s and GO’s together to get what you want ?