Do Railing Walls Show A Fill Color...

[HumbleChief]

... in plan view? I have a dark fill I use for new walls and have never had new railing walls to try and fill. They seem to appear with white fill no matter the settings. True?

[rlackore]

It depends on the Rail Style. I can get hatch fills to show up with a Solid rail, but I can never get solid fills to show up with any style rail.

[HumbleChief]

Thanks Robert, Tried every which way and apparently they don't show a fill. I just used a p-line solid, pretty quick. Appreciate the reply.

[rlackore]

You can also use the BUILD>WALL>HATCH WALL tool - it works on railings.

[dshall]

It depends on the Rail Style. I can get hatch fills to show up with a Solid rail, but I can never get solid fills to show up with any style rail.

That's it,  if it is a solid wall you get the wall fill in plan....  not what I want....  but if I do balusters I get a white fill on my railing in plan view.  I finally get it.....  but it ain't right..... I don't care what my railing is....  open,  closed,  with balusters.....  I don't care....  I should get a non-filled wall.

 

This is very Important to understand....  we must choose a wall type with several layers for situations where the ballister railing/solid railing is actually the edge of a floor platform.

 

Thanks Racklamore,  I finally understand what changes the plan view of the railing and the way it is set up now is wrong.

[dshall]

You can also use the BUILD>WALL>HATCH WALL tool - it works on railings.

 Yea,  but it too is not totally correct because it will show the wall finish (double line at each side of wall).

[HumbleChief]

Thanks as always Scott but in this case I want a dark filled railing in plan view (that's my new wall notation) and can only get the white fill as you show. No big deal in this case but I agree there should be more flexibility for the plan view of railing walls.

[MikeJG]

 Yea,  but it too is not totally correct because it will show the wall finish (double line at each side of wall).

 

That's true for a half wall, but if you copy the wall type and use black (or whatever) line colors and fill for all of the layers the lines go away.

 

For a true railing, the hatching will work.

 

I did these by adding hatching and then editing the hatch to be solid.

 

The one on the left has "Draw Newels/Balusters" checked, the other doesn't.

 

[dshall]

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I did these by adding hatching and then editing the hatch to be solid......

 

Railing Render View.jpg

Railing Plan View.jpg

Okay,  but I would rather my walls be solid and my rail be a white fill.  I think that is typically how it is done.

[MikeJG]

Personally, I like to have the main layers of the walls white/clear and the sheetrock and sheathing solid (but print clear).  

 

For rails I show hatching for a half wall and the newels/balusters for a railing.

 

[glennw]

You can define a single layer wall, without fill and it will display in plan without fill, even if it is defined as a Solid rail.

You can display the walls any way you want.

ie, if your wall definition has a fill, a solid railing using that wall definition will have a fill.

If your wall definition doesn't have a fill, a solid railing using that wall definition will not have a fill

 

It all depends on what wall definition your railing uses.

If you need a multilayered wall,  you can use white lines for any wall layers that you don't want to print