cover fills not showing up urgent help required

[Anonymous]

i've designed a building and want to simply fill the walls with a black fill however the outline of the fill box is aparent but the area of the fill remains transparant. can anyone help please

[Anonymous]

Bring to front in the Display Order

[Anonymous]

i've tried that also and still something seems to be stopping the fill showing, any other suggestions would be great

[Anonymous]

Look in model view options. Check if Show Cover Fills Contours Only Checked

[Anonymous]

that is set to cover fills only and still it doesnt show a black fill, it wont show any solid fills its fine with vectorial fills though

[David Maudlin]

ckennedy:

A few things to check:

1. Since you are talking about walls, the Model View Option that applies is Override Cut Fills, not Override Cover Fills.

2. This could be due to The Floor Plan Cut Plane, the Floor Plan Display of the walls (Symbolic is the simplest choice and ignores the FPCP), the fill selected for the wall, the Cut Fill pens of the wall.

If none of these ideas help, try posting some screen shots of the wall and its dialog box.

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HTH

David

[Anonymous]

Will this option work on Archicad START Edition?

I'm having the same issue, and already have checked all the options above.

Thanks!

[Barry Kelly]

gabrielagg wrote:
Will this option work on Archicad START Edition?

I'm having the same issue, and already have checked all the options above.

Thanks!

This is a 9 year old post.
We now have Graphic Overrides rather than the MVO fill options.
You will need to use a rule that changes the fill to solid and the foreground pen to black - there is probably one there already (all fill solid), you may just need to tweak the pen colour.
Then set the criteria so it looks only for walls.
Create the Graphic Override that uses that rule.

Read up about Graphic Overrides and if you still have questions then post back.

Barry.