How to remove background fill from zone stamp.

[M Cochran]

On every AC 20 project I am working on, all of our zone stamps have a background fill applied that I cannot turn off or seem to edit in any way. In AC 19, I am able to turn off this fill. Is there a setting in the Graphic Overrides that could be causing this or I am missing a setting somewhere?

[Erwin Edel]

Have you tried setting the background fill pen to pen 0? If so, then there probably is a graphic override affecting it.

[M Cochran]

After looking at zones on older ARCHICAD projects, I agree that it is a Graphic Override. However, I am not sure what type of fill is on the Zone Stamp. Is it a Cover Fill?

[Erwin Edel]

Drag a copy of your zone and explode it. The zone stamp object I am using from the Dutch Library has a drafting fill for the stamp.

[M Cochran]

I believe I have this all figured out. When I explode a zone, the fill at the stamp is a drafting fill. I created a new rule in the Graphic Override Settings to have only the drafting fills of zones on a specific layer show up as transparent. This seems to work. Thanks for the help Erwin.

[mIRage66]

This is basically the same thing that's bugging me - and I see that this thread doesn't really solve the problem. It makes the background fill transparent, but it's still a selectable fill.

With the introduction of graphic overrides in AC20-21 as far as i can see there's no way of getting the "NO FILL" option for the zones? Sure you can graphically override in all sorts of ways, except to make all zones have no fills at all.

Does anyone know of a way to do it like it was in AC19?

Most of the time I find it much better that the zones are almost impossible to select - especially when the plans get cluttered with all sorts of dimensions, descriptions etc. The zones still show (name, flooring, area...) but unless you click the exact hotspot you never select it by mistake.

[Laszlo Nagy]

mIRage66,

I think you are right, this is a lost functionality because in AC19 if you use the "No Fill" option in the Override Zone Fills field in the MVO Dialog, the Zone Fill disappeared and was not selectable either.
In AC20 and later, the Zone Fill is still there but it is overridden by the "Transparent" Fill Pen (Pen 0). However, since it is still there it can be selected.

Would be great to have this functionality back so I will forward this issue to GRAPHISOFT for their consideration.

[Sjuzi]

Please help,
I have two files, same template, same zone stamp, same graphic override, in one file is showing zone text correct without background and the other is showing with white background. Background is set in both same, with empty space. Do you have any idea what can be problem? I am out of options...

[Laszlo Nagy]

Could you show screenshots for both cases? I would be interested in both the Graphic Override Rule applied and the result.

[Sjuzi]

I went through all rules there, everything is set same...