Don't forget the grey ones at the top - AC's hardcoded fills. Of which there are far too many IMHO! Would be nice to turn some of these off as it makes trimming down your CAD template some what of a nightmare.
These aren't new BTW - they've been around for years!
And as any good CAD manager knows, if you put a space before your fill name, your fills will jump to the top of each section, apart from the hard coded fills, where solid fill(s) will always be first. Nothing wrong with doing that! Composites of course are always at the bottom of the list, in a section all of their own (i.e. in the wall tool settings).
There is a similar separation with Line types too. You can see the greyed out line between each section. Little tips like this help make your AC use more efficient!
Cheers,
Link.
These aren't new BTW - they've been around for years!
And as any good CAD manager knows, if you put a space before your fill name, your fills will jump to the top of each section, apart from the hard coded fills, where solid fill(s) will always be first. Nothing wrong with doing that! Composites of course are always at the bottom of the list, in a section all of their own (i.e. in the wall tool settings).There is a similar separation with Line types too. You can see the greyed out line between each section. Little tips like this help make your AC use more efficient!
Cheers,
Link.
Well, by grey I guess I meant no border. (As you most likely know), the copies of the Solid & Empty fills simply go to the top because when you paste them in they are just appended a new ID number and these 'hard coded, grey/borderless' fills are sorted by their ID numbers, as opposed to the other two varieties that are sorted by name. That's why I encourage the use of blank spaces before the name of ANY custom attribute. One blank space for an office standard and two for project specific. Too easy! 
Don't you get tired of fighting the constant 'fill infiltration' battle, by dumping all these hard coded fills? I sure did. They are needed for so many things, (esp. in the Extras menu) that it proves to be more trouble than it's worth. Similar to deleting materials or changing pen 91. It may just be me, but I hate seeing the word MISSING appear randomly throughout a brand spankin' new CAD template! Doesn't do much to gain the confidence of new users either.
Anyway, I wish GS would (and I have asked them - for what it's worth!) to address the availability (and nuisance) of hard coded fills. Hopefully they will make them all (except Solid & Empty) appear invisible to the end user.
Just my two cents!
Cheers,
Link.
Don't you get tired of fighting the constant 'fill infiltration' battle, by dumping all these hard coded fills? I sure did. They are needed for so many things, (esp. in the Extras menu) that it proves to be more trouble than it's worth. Similar to deleting materials or changing pen 91. It may just be me, but I hate seeing the word MISSING appear randomly throughout a brand spankin' new CAD template! Doesn't do much to gain the confidence of new users either.
Anyway, I wish GS would (and I have asked them - for what it's worth!) to address the availability (and nuisance) of hard coded fills. Hopefully they will make them all (except Solid & Empty) appear invisible to the end user.
Just my two cents!
Cheers,
Link.
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