Cover fill for half height wall

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know whether this is still not available?

Scenario: I have a 300mm thick, 400mm high wall. In floor plan it appears white and there is no option to make it a different colour

[Christophe Fortineau]

If your wall does not exceed the cut line of your plan then the wall will appear white as it should. If your goal is that the wall appears as cut then it must either go up or give it a different graphic translation (into the wall properties)


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[Anonymous]

My wall is deliberately under the cut line and I do not want it to appear white. As far as I understand there is no option of not having this white - is this correct?

[Christophe Fortineau]

It deals with a cheat 😉
There is the graphic override to give you a part of the solution

[Anonymous]

Good idea! Shame that ARCHICAD doesn't have a proper way to do it though

[Barry Kelly]

benjamin_chan wrote:
Scenario: I have a 300mm thick, 400mm high wall. In floor plan it appears white and there is no option to make it a different colour

If the wall is 'Projected with overhead' and it is below the floor plan cut plane, then it will appear with an empty fill.
I assume you say white because your screen background is white?

Walls do not have a cover fill, so you can not control the colour.

You can set it as 'Symbolic' so you will see the cut fill and you can override the foreground and background pens of the 'Cut Surfaces', but this override will not affect any wall skins that have an empty fill.
Or as mentioned you can set up a Graphic Override (that will alter all skins regardless of what fills have been used in the composite).

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Yes it must be white because my screen is white

The symbolic cut workaround is a good idea, thanks!