I was trying to create a pile cap family with an instance parameter that could either show the piles at default or solid filled with a specific color in order to show a pile in compression or tension.
Changing the material type or adding a detail item that would show instead does not work since the piles are under the cap and thus won't show properly unless in wire frame mode which not acceptable here. I also tried adding a reference plane above the cap in order to place the detail item there to no avail. The odd thing is, the outline of the detail item's boundary will show properly, but not the infill. What gives?
I can add a bunch of model lines in order to 'simulate' a solid hatch but that is hacky.
Any ideas? Attached is the ideal look. With the tension pile solid hatched with a transparency in case it has something above it.
