making new empty fill

[Anonymous]

I know there was a "trick" to make a new empty fill and call it something else but I can't seem to find the explanation.

Thanks for any help,
Michele

[Laszlo Nagy]

This works for me:
1. Place a Fill on the Floor Plan, assign Empty Fill to it.
2. Slect it, copy to Clipboard.
3. Go to Fill Types, rename Empty Fill to Empty Fill-2 or something. OK Dialog.
4. Paste Fill. The referenced Fill type (Empty Fill) will be created among the Fills and now you have two Empty Fills.
If you had not renamed your fill type before, no new fill type would have been created because the program would have found the Fill type it referenced by name.

[Link]

Just keep in mind that you won't be able to delete this fill. Not in the Fill Types dialog or even in Attribute Manager.

Cheers,
Link.

[__archiben]

Link wrote:
Just keep in mind that you won't be able to delete this fill. Not in the Fill Types dialog or even in Attribute Manager.

but what you can do is rename the new "Empty Fill" to something different and then re-rename the original back to "Empty Fill".

this maintains the "Empty Fill" with an internal ID of 65. once this has been done you can create as many 'empty' fills as you want from the duplicate you've now got. any of these can be deleted.

note: you have to do this from the fill settings immeadiately after the new fill has been created. do not open the attribute manager until the re-naming is done.

HTH
~/archiben