2D Fill not alligned to slab

[gedzior84]

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!

[Steve Jepson]

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

[gedzior84]

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. 

[Lingwisyer]

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

Ling.

[Steve Jepson]

?  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.   

[Lingwisyer]

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?

[Steve Jepson]

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.  

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

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.

[gedzior84]

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!