vectorial hatching in elev view

[Anonymous]

i too am not able to get an exterior wall siding and a roof shingle (both are vectorial hatching) to display in elevation, even after following all of the instructions offered to STARTER, august 18.

the 3D vect box is checked in the elevation default settings model display, the hatching is vectorial, the shingles do display on the roof plan, and an element pen is assigned to the material's vectorial hatching.

what else is there to set up to get the hatching to display in elevation?

[Anonymous]

sorry richard, you don't go to the head of the class. although you do get an A for effort.

that view option has been checked all along; one of the first things i made sure of.

my last option is to send an annotated file to my reseller for a looksee and let them make sure i have everything seet up correctly.

thanks.

[Anonymous]

I've been working with this issue for a while now as well and today found a partial solution - hopefully it will work for you. For my roofs, I checked cover fills on and selected the fill I wanted. Nothing would appear.

Then I selected 'use fill of surface material' and under the 'Model' dropdown made sure that a material with a fill pattern was selected (as opposed to the paint materials which have no fill type). After that, the hatch showed up in elevation.

Still doesn't explain why setting a particular fill under covers fills won't work but at least I see what I need to see now.

hope that helps!

EDIT - I've worked with this some more and it's gotten weird. I found that in floor plan (of a story I've set above the roofs) fills were shown for roofs set to 'use the fill of surface material' as well as for those that weren't set that way (which aren't visible in elevation).

But the fill pattern displayed was different for each setting - the roof set to display a material fill had a larger fill pattern.

THEN, I set a few more roofs to display a cover fill (not 'use fill of surface material) and suddenly the fill shows up in the elevations even though when I changed to that same setting while in elevation, no fill became visible.

Also, in elevation, the fill appears correctly distorted for roof placement and pitch angle, but in plan, it is not.....

very confused now....

[Anonymous]

this reply first to Richard >> i discovered this little tidbit > i had checked the box for vectorial hatching in the elevation tool/tool box thinking that it would set it globaly for any elevation as i had not selected any elevations yet. this is not the case. i discovered that an elevation(s) must be selected first and then check the vectorial hatching box. small details kill.

this for chris B > very confused, yes - but at a higher level i can assure you. i too stumble on these "funny things", but i know that for 99% of them, there is a button or switch somewhere in the software that needs adjustment. the other 12% [sic] are software glitches.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried doing a New & Reset - then recreate it on a blank sheet. That way you can eliminate whether it is global or project specific.

[Richard Morrison]

46cruisair wrote:
this reply first to Richard >> i discovered this little tidbit >

Oh, THAT! Well, glad you got this sorted out.