Background-Only Display Option for Cover Fills

[James Murray]

It should be possible to display only the background color of cover fills, without the fill pattern.

While it is efficient to show material fills directly on 3D polygons, cover fills are equally valuable for their masking ability. With a lot of display order manipulation, you can output a complicated roof plan consisting entirely of actual roofs. Cool.

If the roofs have a cover fill pattern, it's not practical to show the roofs themselves in other plans, such as site or framing plans. Too much clutter. But you can't turn the fill pattern off while keeping the masking function.

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[Link]

I know you know you can do this with a solid fill, but I agree - it would be a nice option.

Then again it would be nice to have an unlinked elevation not turn a cover fill into individual lines!

Good to hear from you again mate.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:

Then again it would be nice to have an unlinked elevation not turn a cover fill into individual lines!

Can I vote Essential for this one?!!