Solid Gray Wall Hatching

[jvirostko]

Hey All! I have been revising my templates and trying to clean up how everything displays. I have been hunting the forums and cannot seem to find a solution to how I want my walls to display in floor plan views. 

 

I want to show the walls on my floor plans as a single solid gray hatch for its full thickness on the floor plan view. I also want to be able to show the wall with its layers on a second plan view for details. I've looking through all the tools with wall hatching and the layers, but I can't seem to figure out a system that works without changing the wall types themselves, which won't work on multiple plan views. 

 

Let me know what you guys think! I've seen some of your plans that accomplish this, any help is appreciated!

[glennw]

I think you can do what you want by creating a Plan View with the Poche Walls option checked.

 

 

 

[jvirostko]

Thank you! That looks to be the setting I was missing. That achieves the hatching look I am going for. I tabbed through those outline options but I can't seem to get my wall outline to show up at the same time. Tried enabling the separate layers on and off but it looks like the Poche is covering the edge lines.

 

Any solution to this?  Thank you again!

[GeneDavis]

What do you mean by "hatching?"  This is just solid fill.  One with interior and exterior layers one, the other main layers only.

[jvirostko]

I am looking to display the Walls as a solid fill "hatch" with an outline without changing the fill layers in the wall types settings as I want this to be displayed only on certain plan views 

 

The solution you showed requires removing the outer wall layer outline which would alter the display of dimensions from wall board to wall board on plan views. Changing the wall types will change its appearance across all plan views and requires making additional wall types every time I use a new wall composition. The Poche tool is closer to what I am looking for but removes the outline, which I still need.

[GeneDavis]

Your use of the word "hatch" is really confusing.  I showed you gray solid fill options, done at the wall definition level and display modified by use  of the layer called "walls, main layer only."

 

Chief users are used to the term "hatch" as a style of fill that is an array of parallel lines, where the control is for line weight, angle, and spacing.  There is also the "grid" style of fill, a variation of "hatch" in which the lines go both ways.  Again, there are inputs for line weight, angle, spacing, color.  Solid fill is not hatch.

 

You seem to want a solid color fill, but with what you are calling "outlines."  That is what I showed in my example above.

 

Chief's new poche fill (po SHAY) is a display option controlled at the plan view level (for plan views) and fills the displayed walls with a solid color, filling also the interior and exterior layers, and turning off "outline" layers.  Users can show main layers only with the same level on-off tool one uses regularly.

 

The intro by Chief of poche fill for walls in plan views gives users a quick tool for displaying walls the way most are shown in light commercial work.  Users choose black not gray for this look.

 

You want something unique, which is poche but with control of both wall fill color and line display and color.  You should write a suggestion and show clear examples and post the suggestion in the "Suggestions" sub forum here.

 

 

[Alaskan_Son]

Have you tried the Wall Hatching tool?  If you place Wall Hatches on all your walls, you simply turn the Walls, Hatching layer on or off as desired. 

[para-CAD]

Whether lines or fills, AutoCAD calls all those things Hatching.

Chief and maybe SketchUp might be the only ones making that distinction

[GeneDavis]

Well, hatch me!  Thanks, @Alaskan_Son for introducing me to Chief wall hatching.  I can see what it does, but as for its usefulness, I am undecided.