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fill for ellipse

Anonymous
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I want to fill the ellipse with a solid fill but when I fill/spacebar on the ellipse, the fill turned out to be round instead of filling the ellipse. Am I missing something?

please help.

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Djordje
Virtuoso
lsid wrote:
I want to fill the ellipse with a solid fill but when I fill/spacebar on the ellipse, the fill turned out to be round instead of filling the ellipse. Am I missing something?
Do you maybe have a circle within the ellipse?

Be sure to place the Magic wand on the ellipse's edge when clicking.
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
SeaGeoff
Ace
You must admit that that lack of circular and elliptical fills is a glaring omission within the drafting tool set.
Regards,
Geoff Briggs
I & I Design, Seattle, USA
AC7-28, M1 Mac, OS 15.x
Graphisoft Insider's Panel, Beta Tester
Djordje
Virtuoso
Geoff wrote:
You must admit that that lack of circular and elliptical fills is a glaring omission within the drafting tool set.
You can draw a circular now. Not starting from the center, though ...
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Erika Epstein
Booster
I have noticed the circular fill in the elipse before. It has usually been occurred when I am working in a very small elipse,which judging by the stud to its left, is the case here. Even if this detail is 3" = 1'-0", (large for imperail dimensions), you porbably won't notice it.

If I am not mistaken,the differnece is caused by the tolernces set for the magic wand. The lenght of the arc segments is longer than the angle of the line between the middle of the right side and the topmost point.
Ask yourself,
Will you notice the difference when printed?
If the answer is yes, then you can add node(s) to points along the fill and then adjust the fill to the elipse more fully.
If no....then don't worry about it.
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
Not applicable
Erika wrote:
I have noticed the circular fill in the elipse before. It has usually been occurred when I am working in a very small elipse,which judging by the stud to its left, is the case here. Even if this detail is 3" = 1'-0", (large for imperail dimensions), you porbably won't notice it.

If I am not mistaken,the differnece is caused by the tolernces set for the magic wand. The lenght of the arc segments is longer than the angle of the line between the middle of the right side and the topmost point.
Ask yourself,
Will you notice the difference when printed?
If the answer is yes, then you can add node(s) to points along the fill and then adjust the fill to the elipse more fully.
If no....then don't worry about it.
thanks..where can i set the tolerance for the magic wand?
what i did in order to get the drawing printed, i used the polygon to draw over the ellipse to be filled. it is so time consuming!
Erika Epstein
Booster
Under Tools, Magic Wand Settings
Erika
Architect, Consultant
MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch Yosemite 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OSX 10.11.1
AC5-18
Onuma System

"Implementing Successful Building Information Modeling"
Anonymous
Not applicable
Really interesting point, this is still valid!