Use this procedure to specify the hatching of the components of an individual roof. Hatching is displayed only in the section display representation.
Note: If a material assignment determines the hatching properties of a roof display component, you can change the hatching of the display component by clearing By Material or by overriding the material assignment with a different material.
- Select the roof you want to change, right-click, and click Edit Object Display. Note: You can also use the Display tab of the Properties palette to change the display property settings for a selected object display component in the current display representation.
- Click the Display Properties tab.
- Select the Section display representation, and select Style Override.
- If necessary, click
. - Click the Hatching tab.
- Select the display component, and click the setting for Pattern.
- Select the hatching for the display component:
If you want to… Then… specify a hatching pattern that is available in the software select Predefined for Type, and select a pattern. specify a custom pattern select Custom for Type, and enter the name of the custom pattern. If necessary, click Browse, and navigate to the folder that contains the custom pattern file. specify single hatching select User-Defined for Type, and clear Double Hatch. specify double hatching select User-Defined for Type, and select Double Hatch. specify solid fill select Solid Fill for Type. - Click OK.
- Click Scale/Spacing, and enter a value that determines how the selected pattern is repeated.
- Click Angle, and enter the angle for the selected pattern.
- Click Orientation, and specify how the hatching is oriented:
If you want to… Then… orient the hatching to the roof slab, regardless of the roof slab rotation select Object. orient the hatching to the world coordinate system select Global. - Click X Offset and Y Offset, and enter offset values.
- Click OK twice.