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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
Expert
Set a cover fill. It works for slabs, meshes, roofs, morphs, shells.
Or you can manually draw a fill on the element.
eng. Alessandro Mandala - Italy
AC27 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
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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
Expert
Ok ...
so in the surfaces you have to set the fill and activate the fill by surface in the settings of the element
eng. Alessandro Mandala - Italy
AC27 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores) - 32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 2560x1440
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
Expert
Ok. I attach the screen shot ... it's in Italian but I think you can get the info you need ...
eng. Alessandro Mandala - Italy
AC27 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores) - 32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 2560x1440
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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Screen Shot 2017-07-26 at 14.35.26.png
alemanda
Expert
it's right.
be sure that in MVO (Model View Options) the cover fills are not override
eng. Alessandro Mandala - Italy
AC27 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores) - 32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 2560x1440