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2006-03-20 |
• ArchiCAD 9 |
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• Mac OS X |
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• average users |
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• #10843 |
In ArchiCAD you can set the foreground (fill pattern) and background colors as well. Let's see this in different situations:
In case of an "average" fill you can set the fill type and color (this is the foreground) and the background color (this hides the objects under the fill, and if you set this to transparent, the objects are visible in the "holes").
The solid fill is a special fill, where the foreground pattern contains no holes, so always the foreground color is visble. (the background color setting participates only if the foreground color is transparent).
The empty fill's foreground pattern contains nothing, so always the background is visible, and the foreground setting never participates.
But AutoCAD doesn't use backgroud parameter to fills. To handle this difference between the two programs there is two options
the Export all Fills as "SOLID" checkbox and
Export Fill Backgrounds as additional Solid Hatches checkbox
in the Translator at Attributes/ Fills (save methods).
Let's see what happens when using these checkboxes:
Neither of them is checked: only the foreground parameters will be exported (the pattern component). > The empty fills are exported as boundary polylines.
If you check Export Fill Backgrounds as additional Solid Hatches: the dwg contains two overlapping fills, a solid (from the background) and a patterned (from the foreground). > the empty fills are exported as solid fills, except the transparent ones, in this case they will be boundary polylines.
If you set Export all Fills as "SOLID" - the DWG contains only solid fills from the foreground (the pattern is converted to solid), and the backgroud info is lost. > the empty fills are exported as solid fills, except the transparent ones, in this case they will be boundary polylines.