TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted May 28, 2002 Share Posted May 28, 2002 Can I somehow give the v9 structural shapes (rectangular tubing, wide flanges, channels, etc.) a fill, pattern, hatch, or otherwise? Quote Link to comment
GAMO Posted May 29, 2002 Share Posted May 29, 2002 Try this: Place an structural shape (PIO); then edit it's attributes via the attributes pallete, assigning a hatch in the fill panel...that's all. I tried via class styles and didn't work. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment
Matthew Giampapa Posted May 29, 2002 Share Posted May 29, 2002 Sure, use the attibute pallet. You can also ungroup them so you have full control over the object. The reason they don't respond to the class setting is because the internal bits are not getting the class. Just the outside PIO wrapper. Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support [ 05-28-2002: Message edited by: Matthew Giampapa ] Quote Link to comment
TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted May 29, 2002 Author Share Posted May 29, 2002 Nope. Forcing the attributes to the structural shape doesn't work. The only solution I've found thus far is to Symbol-to-Group the object, thereby decomposing it to a polyline. The fill or hatch then works as it should. I remember that these shapes in v8 would not accept a line type other than solid. Fills worked fine, and other line characteristics worked (colour, lineweight), but I was unable to get a dashed line unless I decomposed the object. The same behavior presents itself in v9, with the addition of the fill problem. Is the 'no dash allowed' by design? If so, why? If not, then that information is not getting passed to the object being drawn. Quote Link to comment
Matthew Giampapa Posted May 29, 2002 Share Posted May 29, 2002 Patterns and hatches can be used as fills. Line dashes can not be changed. It is just how the object was written. I'll flag it as a bug, but your best bet to change all of it's options is still to ungroup it from a high level object. (the convert to group command is effectively the same thing) If your still having the fill problem, make sure you are using the version 9 plug-in, not one that was created from version 8. Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support Quote Link to comment
TiTaNiuM sAMuRai Posted May 29, 2002 Author Share Posted May 29, 2002 Yes, I'm using the v9 objects. Quote Link to comment
Matthew Giampapa Posted May 29, 2002 Share Posted May 29, 2002 Then they should work for color fills, hatches and patterns. They do here at least. Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.