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Color Parameter for Filled Regions

Color Parameter for Filled Regions

I would like a Color Parameter for Filled Regions in the Family Editor. When I want a Detail Component with different color options, I need to draw multiple Filled Regions in the Family Editor and assign Visibility Parameters to them. This is allot of work and users get predefined colors instead of choosing the color they want. We already have the new Fill Pattern Parameter which is great. Having a Color Parameter for Foreground and Background would really make sense.

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Krzyszt0f
Contributor

Agreed.

By comparison, Archicad has a brilliant fill tool -- you can draw a sketch or spline or group of unclosed lines, it will close the boundary for you and create a fill. The lineweight for the boundary and fill patterns, the pattern appearance, colour and background colour or transparency amount are ALL by instance, by just changing a parameter in the properties palette.

You can also use the match properties tool, or select a bunch of fills and change them all to your preset appearance.

amalandfx
Enthusiast

Agreed, this is needed! We need this since color fills in 2D symbols created with nested detail families are best used with Background Pattern colour. We use this for colouring planting 2D symbols nested inside planting families. We're trying to create a method to change the colour in the main drawing through a parameter easily but can't add a parameter to Background Pattern Color in the filled region type properties. This would probably need a way to tie this to a RGB value parameter.

 

Right now the only method we can find is to edit each family. It's very tedious. Plus once we make more complex symbols with multiple colors and multiple fills, editing each fill through editing nested families will be too much, limiting how good of a symbol we can make in Revit families.

 

It needs to be a type parameter that can be changed to be different for each plant species, for us.

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