Wall cut display

[kimheaver]

Can walls show as filled black in a plan view and show the brickwork hatch in a section view, more like the typical drafting convention. I've tried changing the material but it seems to affect both views the same.
I really like the section to show the brick coursing but I think that's probably stretching the friendship.

Thanks,
Kim Heaver

[beegee]

Hi Kim,

Set the plan view for Coarse and the Section view for Fine or Medium.

Set the brick material to display Coarse fill pattern - Solid and Coarse Fill Colour Black.

That will do what you want.

Brick coursing ? You'd be hard pressed to read it at most scales, but you can add a repeating detail that will do the trick at finer scale detail level if you wish.

[kimheaver]

Hi Kim,

Set the plan view for Coarse and the Section view for Fine or Medium.

Set the brick material to display Coarse fill pattern - Solid and Coarse Fill Colour Black.


Hi Beegee,
Thats almost there but I just get the wall outlines, it hides the double leaf & cavity.
Is there a setting to allow Course display the still show the wall structure.

Regards,
Kim

[beegee]

Coarse display will only show the wall extents, not each layer.

Fine or Medium will display each layer and the material's cut pattern. Unfortunately this pattern will be the same when cut in plan or section. So you can have either solid fill or brick hatching, but not both, unless you accept not seeing the brick skins in either paln or section views.
You could overlay a fill pattern to achieve what you want, but thats not really practical I think.

[kimheaver]

Got it!

Set the walls cut display to solid so it shows correctly in plan.
Then for the section do a filled region on each wall and use a brickwork hatch pattern,
and either set the region background to opaque or set the visability of "Override Model Patterns" "Cut Pattern Color" to white.

Is it possible to set a start point of the hatch pattern, I tried a 1c hatch which worked great but the coursing didn't line up so I've used the 45deg brick hatch pattern as a fall back.

Regards,
Kim

[Scott D Davis]

you can move model pattern hatches. Select the hatch, then move, and pick a point on the hatch as the base point, then move it to the correct location.

[kimheaver]

you can move model pattern hatches. Select the hatch, then move, and pick a point on the hatch as the base point, then move it to the correct location.

Your too quick, I just worked out that and was coming back to edit that part out of my last post.

Regards,
Kim