!Restored: No solid fills in section/elevation

[Dave Jochum]

I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. No solid fills are showing in sections or elevations. They show in plans fine, and all other fills show correctly in sect/elev--just not solid ones and no matter what pen is chosen. Display options are set for all fills to display AS IN SETTINGS, fill background BY ELEMENT SETTINGS. I've been staring at these computer screens all day and I'm afraid I've lost my mind. What the heck am I overlooking?

[Rick Thompson]

Can you generate a new elevation and paste the added work to it?

[Dave Jochum]

Rick wrote:
Can you generate a new elevation and paste the added work to it?

Nope--A fill created in the properly displaying elevation and pasted onto one of the "bad" elevations will display as empty.

[Link]

Dave wrote:
UPDATE (weird): I just discovered one elevation in which solid fills will display properly, but all the other elevations and sections will not. As far as I can tell, the settings for the one "working" elevation is identical to all the others--i.e., object settings, model view options, layer combos.

As a temporary test, did you try injecting the parameters from a good S/E into the dodgey one? If that still doesn't produce the results you're after, I'd say you have some kind of corruption and you'd need to recreate the elevation.

Cheers,
Link.

[Dave Jochum]

Link wrote:
As a temporary test, did you try injecting the parameters from a good S/E into the dodgey one? If that still doesn't produce the results you're after, I'd say you have some kind of corruption and you'd need to recreate the elevation.

I did try injecting with no success. The elevations are un-linked and I am just cleaning up and adding 2D info. Again, to be clear, I have no trouble with fills that came into the elevation by way of object parameters. I am simply trying to create fills in an elevation drawing.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Are you switching to that elevation via a view in Navigator, so that the 'good' elevation and 'bad' elevation might be using different pen tables?

Karl

[Dave Jochum]

Karl wrote:
Are you switching to that elevation via a view in Navigator, so that the 'good' elevation and 'bad' elevation might be using different pen tables?

Good thought, but no, pen sets are the same. I'm still baffled.

[Laura Yanoviak]

I don't know if this post is related, but you are both working on a Mac -- could this be a bug?

[Dave Jochum]

Laura wrote:
I don't know if this post is related, but you are both working on a Mac -- could this be a bug?

Laura--Thanks for linking this. At this point, I think it must be a bug.

[Dave Jochum]

Problem solved: http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=117384#117384

[Dave Jochum]

I REALLY do not like the implementation of this tool, and I still think there is a bug--or two. I had to click on the button three times for the solid fills to show and there was no shading of the button to indicate position. It now does become shaded with every other click as it should.

The tool seems to be global while working in model/drawing mode, but view specific when in the layout book. That makes no sense to me--what would be the advantage to it applying globally--ever? While I was having the "problem", as I described, one elevation displayed with solid fills, while all the others did not--that appears to me to be a bug, though I believe it should be a feature of View Options.