standard fills in v11 not showing up the same as v9

[Anonymous]

howdy

having a few issues with the standard fills:

The Gypsum Board, Gypsum Board+Vapor Barrier, Gypsum Firecode, %25, %50, %75, etc. fills are showing up as solid, even though they have the same settings as in 9.0 (they were dots in 9.0), any clue on what the problem is?

thanks

yukioMishima

[__archiben]

yukioMishima wrote:
The Gypsum Board, Gypsum Board+Vapor Barrier, Gypsum Firecode, %25, %50, %75, etc. fills are showing up as solid, even though they have the same settings as in 9.0 (they were dots in 9.0), any clue on what the problem is?

sorry - missed this one in your big post yesterday . . .

the percentage fills are now true halftone(?) fills rather than a close bit-mapped approximation. they are not quite solid - they show show the percentage of the tone of the pen you've selected. or something like that.

i suspect that the other fills you refer to (the gypsum ones) are either ones you've created yourself by duplicating a percentage fill, or have been created using the percentage fills by whoever set up the default templates for your localised version of archicad . . .

i seem to recall reading somewhere that although these percentage fills are now true of the 'halftone' variety in the floor plan window, they are still not generated as such by the archicad 3D engine in sections, elevations and the like.

i've not done enough digging into them personally, so maybe someone else will be able to help . . .

~/archiben