Existing walls and new walls fills display

[Anonymous]

In a project for an addition to an existing building, where the new walls are composite. It's normal practice to show existing walls with a solid fill, and yet for the first stages of a project I don't need to show the composition for the new walls to "the powers that be", but I find it very useful, to test and check how everything fits together.

Is there a way/setting to be able to display the solid fill for the existing wall and yet still display the NEW walls as empty for printing purposes, until later on?

Of course a workaround would be to just do the new walls with empty fills at first, and just "syringe" change them later on, but is there another more "intelligent" way ?

TIA

Naftali

[Anonymous]

You could create the composite wall types for the new walls with all empty fills to start and then change them when it's time for CDs.

[Anonymous]

I always create existing walls with empy fills since most of them are not part of the construction. New walls are poched with fills so that more information decribes them.

[Anonymous]

jhutchison wrote:
I always create existing walls with empy fills since most of them are not part of the construction. New walls are poched with fills so that more information decribes them.

Wish I could do that, but the local authorities wouldn't accept that !

Thanks anyways !

Naftali

[Dave Jochum]

Naftali wrote:

jhutchison wrote:
I always create existing walls with empy fills since most of them are not part of the construction. New walls are poched with fills so that more information decribes them.

Wish I could do that, but the local authorities wouldn't accept that !

Thanks anyways !

Naftali

Just curious...What is it that your local authorities find unacceptable about this?

[Anonymous]

Dave wrote:

Naftali wrote:

jhutchison wrote:
I always create existing walls with empy fills since most of them are not part of the construction. New walls are poched with fills so that more information decribes them.

Wish I could do that, but the local authorities wouldn't accept that !

Thanks anyways !

Naftali

Just curious...What is it that your local authorities find unacceptable about this?

European conventions, I suppose. For large size multi-story room additions, you got to admit that having the existing building in black makes the "white" additions "pop out" on the floor plans and sections.

Anyway, can I just turn this into a wishlist item:

Change display variable of construction fills of walls from a Global variable to an individual wall variable.

Naftali

[Djordje]

Naftali wrote:
Is there a way/setting to be able to display the solid fill for the existing wall and yet still display the NEW walls as empty for printing purposes, until later on?

You might have an "existing" and "New" view, with different display options, and then superimpose them in PlotMaker. When the preliminaries are over, then re-arrange.

[Dave Jochum]

Naftali wrote:

Dave wrote:

Naftali wrote:
Wish I could do that, but the local authorities wouldn't accept that !

Thanks anyways !

Naftali

Just curious...What is it that your local authorities find unacceptable about this?

European conventions, I suppose. For large size multi-story room additions, you got to admit that having the existing building in black makes the "white" additions "pop out" on the floor plans and sections.

Anyway, can I just turn this into a wishlist item:

Change display variable of construction fills of walls from a Global variable to an individual wall variable.

Naftali

Sorry, I wasn't clear--and also, sorry to everyone else for continuing the off-topic portion of this thread, but my interest is piqued--but what is it specifically that is unacceptable? Is there a convention for poche-ing walls that is mandated, and if so, what is it?