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Thank you all for your input. Both of the material editing methods suggested will allow me to work around and make the elevations more uniform, so much appreciated! It is sort of a shame though that I will have to edit every item on these walls though, I was hoping it was just an easy setting I had wrong somewhere! I do hope that CA will listen to Glenn's request and put in a feature to turn of the shading universally. @Mark, I had not discovered that I could do that yet so thank you for that tip. I do actually prefer to look at elevations in black and white, so I will set up some layer sets and see if I can get those overlays to work as you have. Thanks much!

Hi All, I am hoping someone smarter than myself may be able to shed some light on an issue I am having. I have searched through the forums and knowledge base and cannot find anything on this issue already posted. I am having some trouble with my interior colored vector view elevations. I am a very new CA user, so it might be something very simple I am missing! I am using CA X8 on an older, but not totally decrepit HP laptop. Intel i5 and Windows 10 w/ Intel 4000 Graphics, with drivers up to date. Kitchen and Bath design so all of my drawings are interior view based. My issue is this: When I create colored vector view elevations, views that are facing Up or "North" and Down or "South" as you look at the computer screen are perfect. Views that are created Left or "West" and Right or "East" are significantly darker. So much so it is to the point that you cannot make out some specific details such as the indicative grout lines on a custom back splash. It is not an issue when the vector view is in B&W, only color. The simple work around is to produce the views in B&W, but I need my custom comments and leader lines to be colored for certain documents and when you select the B&W vector, these colored comments go B&W also. I cannot for the life of me figure out why. It may just be my computer, but unfortunately the only other computer I currently have access to is an old XP machine that will not run CA, so I cannot test the theory. The issue is uniform across all plans. I have even downloaded some of the users plans posted here on the forums to see if it was the same on plans created by other users and it is. I am attaching *.jpg images of the elevations as well as the plan they are from. Notice on the "Left" view it is almost impossible to tell that there is a brick pattern in the back splash. Does anyone else have this issue? Any advice would be appreciated! It is bugging me and it will bother me to submit these drawings to a client with these noticeable issues. Thanks in advance! Hannah Station View Kitchen.plan