Solid Fill - Camera View Options / Plot Lines

[JKEdmo]

Good morning,

 

Is it possible to have a material color show a greyscale solid fill in layout box plot line display?  For example, I have black painted exterior trim on the garage door pergola (highlighted below).

 

It'd be great to this appear as dark grey solid fill on my black and white plot line elevations.

 

When I go to edit the material pattern there is no solid fill option.  Is there a technical reason for this I wonder?

 

Thanks again,

 

Jim

 

 

 

 

[Alaskan_Son]

For solid colors In Chief we essentially have Material Colors (which you have turned off), Solid Fills, and Background Colors. 

 

Presumably because Materials already have a color, the Solid Fill style and Background settings are only available for CAD based objects.  For your 3D materials, you're stuck using the Material Color (which again you have turned off) with the option of using a Pattern (line work) on top of that.  I think the closet thing you'll get to doing what you want is to just use a hatch pattern with very close spacing.  That being said, this pattern would be applied to every other camera view type that shows your pattern as would the solid fill style IF you could choose it.

 

You can of course also just draw in some closed polylines at those limited locations if you really want that specific look.  

[JKEdmo]

1 hour ago, Alaskan_Son said:

For solid colors In Chief we essentially have Material Colors (which you have turned off), Solid Fills, and Background Colors. 

 

Presumably because Materials already have a color, the Solid Fill style and Background settings are only available for CAD based objects.  For your 3D materials, you're stuck using the Material Color (which again you have turned off) with the option of using a Pattern (line work) on top of that.  I think the closet thing you'll get to doing what you want is to just use a hatch pattern with very close spacing.  That being said, this pattern would be applied to every other camera view type that shows your pattern as would the solid fill style IF you could choose it.

 

You can of course also just draw in some closed polylines at those limited locations if you really want that specific look.  

 

Thank you for taking time to explain this.  I think I tried the dense hatch pattern trick a few years back but did not like how it made the model sluggish.

 

Jim