Fill Tool Settings

For a description of generic settings common to all tools in the Toolbox, see Working in Tool Settings Dialog Boxes.

See also Fills.

If You Are Editing the Fill Component of a Profile

If you are editing a selected fill component of a Profile attribute, the only available controls are Fill outline on/off, cut line type and color, and Fill type selection (the available Fills here represent Building Materials for the profile you are editing).

See Edit Complex Profile.

Fill General Settings Panel

This panel controls the appearance of the Fill in the Floor Plan. These Fill settings will also be used if you draw a Fill in a Section/Elevation/IE or Detail/Worksheet window.

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Fill Outline

Click to define a Fill outline.

Choose its Line Type and color.

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Fill Category

Click the button to the left of the Fill pattern pop-up to choose a Fill Category for this Fill.

For more information, see Fill Categories.

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Fill Type

Choose the fill type that will be used to display the Fill.

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Choose foreground and background pen colors. Depending on the fill type (e.g. those based on Building Materials or Surfaces), certain overrides may be available.

For the fill background, you can also choose the transparent option or the Window Background color.

Construction Method

Set the orientation of the fill’s vectorial hatching (if any) or symbol fill pattern.

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Choose from the following Construction Method options:

Link to Project Origin: The pattern will always link to the Project Origin, regardless of fill position and rotation.

Link to Fill Origin: The pattern will always follow the fill position and rotation. To modify the fill origin and rotation, select the fill and drag the fill handle.

Custom Distortion: Similar to Link to Fill Origin. Use the two fill handles to distort the fill’s X/Y orientation and scaling.

For examples of each option, see Fill Orientation Methods.

Radial Distortion: Graphically adjust the vector’s radial distortion. Available only for a selected symbol Fill and only if:

the symbol fill was used as a skin of a composite structure; and

the skin’s Fill Orientation was defined as Fit to Skin in the Composite Structures dialog box; and

you have selected this symbol fill after exploding a curved composite wall.

See Radial Distortion (Symbol Fills only).

Notes: 

Vectorial hatching is displayed only if you have switched to in View > On-Screen View Options > True Fill Appearance.

The use of many radial distorted fills in your project may decrease project performance.

Show Area Text

Check this to show an associative area text with the Fill. If this box is checked, you will place (as part of the fill drafting process) a dimension-text element displaying the Fill’s area on the plan.

Note: The format of Area Text and any associated Pointer line is defined in the Dimension Text Settings dialog box.

See Add Area Text to a Fill.

Subtract from Zones

Check to subtract default or selected Fill elements from the Zones.

Type a number (1-100) in the percentage field to define the percentage of the Fill element’s area that you want to subtract from the Zones in percentage.