Roof Rake Fills in AC 10

[Anonymous]

I have a fill type that I use for elevations/section views to show the facia board without having to actually model it. In AC9 it worked great, but in 10 it does not. See Image. Notice the blue lines on the rakes. You can see in the AC9 image that on the eave, it shows correctly, and still does in 10. But the rake in 10 is clearly wrong. Anyone know why this does this and how to fix it? I am currently having to take the fill out leaving a big blank rake. I don't like that.

[Djordje]

You have a few problems here:

- if you are using the fill as a part of the material, then the material mapping is going haywire

- if you are drawing the fill, then either the fill orientation or the symbol size is wrong

You can do this with TrussMaker as a lib part in the same time it takes you to do the fills ...

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
same roof - different thicknesses
Can anyone confirm if this is fixed in the latest build?
Original hatch was horizontal lines.

It's looking more and more like a bug. Do the fills always orient diagonally across the edge of the roof regardless of angle?

[Karl Ottenstein]

sirduncan wrote:
I have a fill type that I use for elevations/section views to show the facia board without having to actually model it. In AC9 it worked great, but in 10 it does not. See Image. Notice the blue lines on the rakes. You can see in the AC9 image that on the eave, it shows correctly, and still does in 10. But the rake in 10 is clearly wrong. Anyone know why this does this and how to fix it? I am currently having to take the fill out leaving a big blank rake. I don't like that.

I use the same technique for quick/prelim presentation of stacked fascia for line drawings (including 3D hidden line with vectorial hatching). It always worked in 9 for me, but has been failing in 9 for a friend recently. I found it was failing during 10 beta testing, but not in a way that I could consistently reproduce. The default ('reset' if necessary) material mapping should orient the fill and material at the same angle as the roof.

If you can come up with a small example that always reproduces the problem, send the PLA to tech support with a bug report please. (Since you're in the US, fill in the form at tr.graphisoftus.com )

Karl

[Anonymous]

The material never seems to ahve a problem so long as the roof is mitered. Just the section/elevation 2D fill that is connected to the material.

I'd have to do some research to get any useful data out of it. And right now I'm just too busy.

[Aussie John]

Matthew wrote:
It's looking more and more like a bug. Do the fills always orient diagonally across the edge of the roof regardless of angle?

yes change the angle and the hatch changes too. Only at zero degrees does the hatch act as expected.