Paint bucket

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't a nice paint bucket option for fills be helpful? I myself find it to be a pain in the arse to trace the contour line of drafting lines that I want to set a fill to. Like MS paint has, it wouldn't have to be very complex or hard, just click the pain bucket inside a shape and BAM, it fills it in for you. What do you all think? Is there an add-on for this?

[TomWaltz]

Isn't that what the Magic Wand does?

[Anonymous]

Although it does do single fills, the problem comes when you overlap two polygons and only want to fill the middle piece. That way you could overlap many polygon shapes and only fill select pieces. With magic wand it fills each polygon solid.

[TomWaltz]

Demetious wrote:
Although it does do single fills, the problem comes when you overlap two polygons and only want to fill the middle piece. That way you could overlap many polygon shapes and only fill select pieces. With magic wand it fills each polygon solid.

Magic wand can fill overlapping areas of multiple polygons. Just click in the space instead of on a polygon.

[Anonymous]

How right you are. /bows gracefully and hope no one reads this post.

Thank you.

[Dwight]

Postings like this show three things:

1: That tools exist to do amazing things in Archicad but they aren't trumpeted as such, like the magic wand makes a fill....

2: The benfits of training: having a pseudo friend to show you the ropes before you set sail.

3: It is way better when you are new to a software to post "How do I?" rather than "I wish for…." Of course, the worst posting to make when you are new is "Why doesn't this work like AutoCAD?" Close second "This lousy Archicad, I can't make it do ANYTHING!"

[Rod Jurich]

Dwight wrote:
Postings like this show three things:

1: That tools exist to do amazing things/...........
2: The benfits of training/......
3: It is way better/.......I can't make it do ANYTHING!"

Bulls eye! Dwight

[Ben Cohen]

still...... it would be nice if the magic wand worked like this in section/elevation DIRECTLY without exploding - copy and pasting etc.
Come on - give the guy a break!!

[Anonymous]

I would have to agree and I didn't take it as a personal slam against me at all.

1) Archicad is a great program and many of the simple tools have multiple ways to use them. I have always clicked on the polyline instead of inside it because I didn't even think about the magic wand for something like that. I just thought it traced the contour.

2) Training does help a lot but when my whole department is all learning a new version (10) who has time to train on every little tool.

3) I asked if there was an add-on and never bashed Archicad for not having this, just said it would be nice. Now I realize it isn't needed.

Since all of the points made are valid, I agree 100%. I'm glad I posted this here because maybe there is someone else out there with the same problem and they see paint bucket. Then they can find out without posting such a post. Isn't that what the forums are for, help?

[Rod Jurich]

Demetious wrote:
I would have to agree and I didn't take it as a personal slam against me at all./.....................Since all of the points made are valid, I agree 100%. /........................ Isn't that what the forums are for, help?

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