Solid Element operations and cover fills??

[Anonymous]

I subtracted a half inch thick roof from a 12 inch thick roof successfully. In 3D view all is well. In 2D view, the cover fill of the roof doesn't respect the whole that was made. is it supposed to perform this way or have I done somehting wrong? Any suggestions?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Solid Element Op results do not show up in plan. A very big issue that GS knows we need.

Unfortuantely, 2D fills (masking and other), lines, and/or the 'patch' object are required to make things right. Be sure you leave yourself a note in a checklist to revisit every such instance before generating final documents, since such 2D things are of course not 'live'.

Karl

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the info! So I did a 2D fill on the plan using a solid fill with a white pen for the fill and the outline and pulled it to the front in terms of display order, and sent my roof to the back and still the cover fill for the roof shows through the 2D solid drafting fill. I have checked the elevation and the drafting fill does live just above the roof by like a 1/16". Do cover fills take priority over drafting fills?

[Anonymous]

How does your drafting fill have an elevation? It's a 2D item.

If you are indeed using a fill try changing its background colour to white also.

[Anonymous]

My mistake, I pulled up the settings box of the target thinking I was looking at the fill. My background is white, 91.

[Link]

slw wrote:
Do cover fills take priority over drafting fills?

You need to adjust their display order. Select the fill, right click, and use the context menu to bring it up/down in the stack.

Cheers,
Link.