Defining hatch for a 2D TOP VIEW walls

[zionshea]

Hi,

 

I have a 3D building and when displaying the 2D TOP VIEW I get all walls with no hatch.

 

1. How do I define a hatch for the 2D TOP VIEW walls?

2. Low walls (below the defined cut-plan height) are displayed with light blue colour; How can I define a default colour of theses?

 

Thanks, zionshea.

[busseynova]

Select wall, right click, 'edit wall style', go to display properties tab, select 'plan view' and then hit the 'edit diplay properties' button on the top right. This will bring up another window in which you can edit all the diplay perameters for that wall style in the view you selected (2d plan in this case).

 

Hope this works, I only learnt this very recently and it's proving amazingly useful for what I do.

[zionshea]

Thanks for the answer- it helped.

 

Have another question:

 

I am using viewports for printing.

 

1. How can I define the proerties of each viewport to print in the correct scale?

my Drawing Units = Centimeter and the Annotation Scale in the model = "1:100". How should I define the Viewport parameters (Annotation Scale?, Standard Scale?, Custom Scale?) and the plotting parameters (to a pdf) (Scale?, 1 mm - ???? units?), in order to get a correct draw scale in the pdf file?

 

2. How can I configure the viewport so changes will NOT be enabled at all from the viewport (only to be anabled frorm the model)? ((Dispay_Lock=Yes is not good enough))

[busseynova]

1. double click inside the viewport to make sure you're in that layout's model space. zoomscale (z,enter, s, enter) enter your scale followed by xp i.e 'z, enter, s, enter, 1/100xp'

 

2. I don't know, but why would you need to? Just don't edit things in your viewports. You can lock layers for things like your title block that is stiitng in the paper space so you can't mess with them.

 

P.S, I'd take a look in the beginners area, FAQ's, ACAD help etc, your first question is a pretty simple problem that could be answered with 2 mintues on the help menu.

[zionshea]

Not clear how I can get a precise 1:100 printout. How should I configure the viewport and the page setup manager. what parametes shold I set in the viewport properties or in the page set up manager?

 

currently I get printouts which are not exactly 1:100.

[busseynova]

It may be a setting on your printer's software. Some have the facility to scale to the printable area, or a different page size, this can distort your print scale. Check your printers settings.