Fills with holes

[Anonymous]

Did I dream this?

I thought there was a way of 'magic-wanding' a fill, which would pick up 'islands' automatically.

Currently, if I magic wand within a polygon, other areas within that polygon are ignored. Do I have to cut out the 'islands' manually one a time, or is there an option somewhere?

Keith

Archicad Ver 11 on MAC OSX 10.4.8

[Djordje]

You can cut them out with the magic wand too ...

[Erich]

Keith,
from your terminology I assume you are coming from an Autocad background where this behaviour is inherent?

Djordie,
I think the question was is there a way to make this happen in a single operation (i.e. one click)? While I greatly prefer AC's fills to AutoCad's hatches it can be a bit annoying to magic wand a region with many holes and have to go back and remove the holes as a separate operation, magic wanded or otherwise.

I would be interested to find out if anyone has a better way.

[__archiben]

doesn't it depend on whether or not you magic wand the fill region or the fill boundary? i must add that i'm not quite sure about this - magic wanding regions is slightly hit-and-miss at the best of times so i only use it when i'm feeling super lazy.

logically i would expect that if you space-click the fill boundary (half-magic-wand) it would simply trace the boundary only and ignore the holes. likewise, if you space-click the fill area (full-magic-wand) it would trace the exact area of the fill including holes . . .

i'm not in front of AC so i can't check to make sure . . .

~/archiben

[Link]

This be the problem. It can't be done at all AFAIK.

FWIW GS is aware of it.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your comments, guys.

I'm resigned to cutting them out individually. At least I found a way to copy the 'holes' where the shapes were the same.

Keith

Archicad ver 11 on Mac OSX 10.4.8