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Material fill in plan

Anonymous
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I'm pretty sure that I must be missing something fairly simple/obvious but google searches aren't helping.

How do I set and show a material fill for various elements in plan?

E.g. I have a grass material for a slab, which shows green in 3D and I'd like it to show green in plan.

I can individually set the colour of slabs but I'd like it controlled by the material
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alemanda
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Set a cover fill. It works for slabs, meshes, roofs, morphs, shells.
Or you can manually draw a fill on the element.
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Anonymous
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Thanks for your reply but I want to control it via the material i.e. everything in plan with a certain material (and no overrides) has a certain appearance.
alemanda
Advocate
Ok ...
so in the surfaces you have to set the fill and activate the fill by surface in the settings of the element
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Anonymous
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Thanks alemanda but I'm still struggling!

I created a material, with 'paving Asphalt dark' for the surface but it shows up as blue/purple in plan!
alemanda
Advocate
Ok. I attach the screen shot ... it's in Italian but I think you can get the info you need ...
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Anonymous
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Thanks for your continued assistance, not sure where I'm going wrong, please see attached
Screen Shot 2017-07-26 at 14.34.11.png
Anonymous
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alemanda
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it's right.
be sure that in MVO (Model View Options) the cover fills are not override
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Display DELL 25'' 2560x1440

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