Merging Fills with Fill Consolodation

[ngoldie]

Hi,

I have merged a lot of fills with the Fill Consolidation option. I checked Trim Overlapping Fills & Merge Fills regardless of shape. Most of the fills merged however there are still some that won't merge together. Any ideas on why this might be the case? I tried selecting just 2 of the ones that wouldn't merge together and doing the Fill Consolidation option again and it still didn't work....

Thanks,
Naomi

[Richard Morrison]

The fills could be cover fills on a slab, for example, which won't merge with regular fills. The quickest solution is to eyedrop and syringe the non-joining fills with the other fill, so they are the same layer/type. Of course, you might be changing the entity type. So, select the non-merging fills and make sure they are all actually fills first.

[ngoldie]

Hi,

I just did the eye dropper and they are both definitely fills not cover fills on a slab and they still won't merge.
They were the Fills copied from Shadows....

Cheers,
Naomi

[Laszlo Nagy]

Are you sure those problematic Fills actually overlap? If they simply touch, you can zoom in onto them very closely and maybe you will see that there is a very slight gap between them. In this case you may modify one of them to make them really touch or overlap.
I can imagine such a case can occur with Shadows copy-pasted from the 3D Viewpoint or Sections/Elevations.

[mlopez]

I know this response is extremely untimely, but I was just having the same issue. I ended up checking "Trim Overlapping Fills" as well as "Merge Identical adjoining Fills" and that did the trick. Not sure why, but my Fills were successfully Consolidated!