Polyline wireframe

[saxum]

Wide polylines show as wireframe rather than solid.

[ReMark]

Try setting the FILL variable to 1. What happens?

[saxum]

I have fill set to 'ON ' not off but no change.

[ReMark]

Yeah, I should have said "on". I must have been thinking of FILLMODE. Did you "regen" at all?

[saxum]

Yes, no change with regen. I imported my drawing back into another drawing and the polylines becomes solid again but looking at all the settings for each drawing I can't find where the difference lies.

[nestly]

Wide polyline will be unfilled if the visual style is anything other than 2D Wireframe, the view is not perpendicular to UCS the filled polyline was created in, or if the HIDE command is issued (until regen)

[saxum]

The visual style is set at 2D wireframe and I work in 2D so the UCS remains in the x-y plane. As far as I can recall the drawing originated with me and was not imported with odd settings.

[ReMark]

This is the second time I've seen a post with this exact same problem and each user basically said the same thing when it came to 2D wireframe, the UCS, Hide and Fill settings. Interesting.

[nestly]

Can you post the drawing in question?

[saxum]

Struggled to get a drawing below the upload limit but saved as 2004 it worked. Thanks in anticipation.

POLYLINE 2004.dwg

[nestly]

The view is not perpendicular to the the polyline, which was immediately evident by jagged edges on the viewcube.

 

If you use the viewcube click "Top" to "square up" the view relative to the current UCS, or use PLAN at the command line.

 

http://screencast.com/t/iGKQWgLrhn

[saxum]

Thank you, that resolved it. I felt sure it was probably obvious to the right person, just don't know why this drawing set up varied from my others.

[nestly]

Cool.

It's fairly easy to accidentally move a view. You may have inadvertently dragged the viewcube a little while trying to drag something "behind" it, or you may have had your finger on the "shift" key while panning with the middle button, which invokes 3Dorbit.