Auto Detail Fill settings?

[ChristianA]

In x17, the fill for concrete walls and slabs when you used the auto detail feature followed the wall type and floor structure  fill setting.  It's seems as though in x18, the auto detail feature ignores the these settings and makes it a concrete fill with a 2" scale.  Am I missing something or is there another place that this can be changed?

[Chrizoo]

Hi Christian, I am experiencing a very similar issue after moving from X17 to X18.

In X17, I had my concrete fills set to black concrete hatching on a green background, and Auto Detail produced that appearance automatically. With the same template in X18, the concrete fill I checked in Floor Structure still appears green, but running Auto Detail in a new cross section produces a white background.

On one generated CAD polyline, we found that the background colour source was set to Use Background Color. Changing it to Custom Color and selecting green corrected that individual shape, but that does not resolve the automatic behaviour for future Auto Detail runs. The generated concrete pattern spacing was 50 mm.

Has anyone found a setting or a template migration issue that explains this? I would appreciate any guidance on preserving the assigned concrete fills automatically in X18 rather than editing each generated shape manually.

Chief Architect Premier X18, build 28.2.1.14, Windows. Thank you for raising this question.

[Joe_Carrick]

Have either of you reported this to Chief Support?

[Chrizoo]

Hi Joe, not yet. I wanted to check with the community first in case this is a setting I have missed or someone has already found a workaround in X18. I would appreciate any suggestions from others who have experienced this. Thank you for the suggestion.

[ChristianA]

52 minutes ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Have either of you reported this to Chief Support?

Not yet, as I was giving the forum a chance to educate me.  Since I haven't received any info from users, I will report this.

[robdyck]

I have also noticed that all concrete objects now fill using Chief's embedded concrete fill pattern.  My settings are ignored for concrete walls and floor structures.

For basements I had control over the wall and floor, but never the footing fill.

 

For me, this is not a problem because I always replaced Chief's fill pattern for the footing with my own, which was my same choice for concrete walls and slabs. 

I have that fill pattern in my library with a tool linked to it. When I use the spray fill tool, I just ensure it is in Floor mode and then it replaces all matching fills at one time.