Is there a way to layer fill options in plan view?

[annalisax]

Doing a new remodel project and  I would like to show a square grid in red on my Demolition plan noting that the tiles in this area to be removed. On my Floor -Finishes page I would like the fill to be wood plank showing the area and direction of the planking to be installed. Trying to define  a fill for an Active Layer Set Control. Is there a way to do this? 

I could polyline solid but the solids seem to overlay on top of Door swings , Cabinets etc.  Plus its a pain. Am I missing something?

[rlackore]

Two suggestions:

1) investigate using a fill pattern (room specification dbx) if the demo area is the entire room

2) if not the entire room, maybe use a material region

[annalisax]

Demo and new flooring are entire rooms but when I use a fill pattern in the room specification it works for the Demo hatching but not the new flooring hatching.

[Joe_Carrick]

Try specifying the fill to have either a transparent background or set the fill "transparency" percentage.

[joey_martin]

Do yourself a favor and use keynotes rather than fills...

[Chrisb222]

17 hours ago, annalisax said:

Trying to define  a fill for an Active Layer Set Control. Is there a way to do this?

 

Not currently, but it's something I asked for about six years ago. It would be a very powerful improvement to Plan View Displays, not just for fill style but other aspects of object display as well.

 

Unfortunately even though I feel it would greatly enhance the program, the idea didn't get a lot of traction. Take a look at this Suggestion and see if you want to add your support:

 

 

[Alaskan_Son]

On 3/3/2025 at 10:30 AM, annalisax said:

Doing a new remodel project and  I would like to show a square grid in red on my Demolition plan noting that the tiles in this area to be removed. On my Floor -Finishes page I would like the fill to be wood plank showing the area and direction of the planking to be installed. Trying to define  a fill for an Active Layer Set Control. Is there a way to do this? 

I could polyline solid but the solids seem to overlay on top of Door swings , Cabinets etc.  Plus its a pain. Am I missing something?

 

This really isn't too difficult to achieve:

1. Draw a simple Polyline (CAD) either manually or by selecting the Room and clicking the Make Room Polyline tool.  
2. Apply your desired Fill Style to that polyine (Grid with red Pattern Lines and Background set to desired Fill color)
3. Move that polyline to the desired layer ("CAD, Demolition" maybe)
4. Move that Polyline to a lower Drawing Group (Drawing Group #35 will be just in front of the Room Fill Drawing Group)

Now you can simply toggle the "CAD, Demolition" layer on and off as desired.  If you don't want to use the Room Fill at all, you can also create a second Polyline for the wood planks and just place that on a separate layer.  Again though, the main key point is to move it to a lower Drawing Group so that it is behind everything.