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How to make walls opaque in plan view in ArchiCAD 21

svpribyl
Booster
I can't figure out how to make my composite walls (or non-composite walls, for that matter) opaque in plan view so they hide a floor pattern (cover fill on a slab or regular fill). I have the display order set properly, no graphic overrides. I've been trying different parameter settings (cut fill background pen), but that doesn't seem to have any effect. What am I missing?

Steve
Steve Pribyl
MAC OS Sonoma 14.5
ArchiCAD 28
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
Your walls (simple or composite) will be using a building material for the 'Structure' (what you will see in plan).
In your Building Material settings you can choose the type of fill that you want for the cut fill and also the foreground and background pen colours used for that fill.
This is what you will see in plan.
You may need to adjust display order to pull the wall on top or send other elements to the back (generally the default order is pretty good).

Barry.
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svpribyl
Booster
Hi Barry,
That finally solved it, along with the fact that "Override Cut Fill" also has to be set to "none".

Thanks!
Steve Pribyl
MAC OS Sonoma 14.5
ArchiCAD 28