Exterior Elevations

[Anonymous]

i would like to show the vinyl siding or brick veneer on the front of a house when i do a 2-d elevation of it. is there any way to do this?

[Anonymous]

Assign a Vectoral Hatch to the material you have assigned to the exterior wall

[Anonymous]

this is bad but i don't know how to do that. can you help me?

[Anonymous]

got it! never mind!

[Anonymous]

The material you assigned to the exterior face of your elevation needs a vectoral hatch.. the little icon indicated which materials have been assigned hatches:

[Anonymous]

Great!

[Bob Moore]

I've had a problem with this . My 3-d models show the exterior material but the 2-d elevations don't.

[__archiben]

Bob wrote:
I've had a problem with this . My 3-d models show the exterior material but the 2-d elevations don't.

make sure that you've got 'Vectorial 3D Hatching' turned on in the 'Model Effects' tab of the section/elevation settings . . :

HTH
~/archiben

[SeaGeoff]

I found this topic on my search after a new user at work put me on the spot. In S/E uncut objects, say the exterior wall of a house in elevation, have no background fill, even with vectoral hatching enabled. While they obscure any model elements beyond, you can see any drafted elements right through them.

Is there no way to assign a background pen to the vectoral hatch in S/E?

[Anonymous]

Geoff wrote:
I found this topic on my search after a new user at work put me on the spot. In S/E uncut objects, say the exterior wall of a house in elevation, have no background fill, even with vectoral hatching enabled. While they obscure any model elements beyond, you can see any drafted elements right through them.

Is there no way to assign a background pen to the vectoral hatch in S/E?

Why do you want drafted elements to be hidden? I always overlay the drawing with notes, etc. I can't imagine why I would want any drafted stuff to be obscurred.