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Is there a easy way to fill a closed area with color without assigning a site improvement to it. I am trying to create a site improvement legend to show what areas are using which site improvement for a takeoff. That way when I print off the takeoff I can also print a basic overview of the project showing the site improvements colors.

Nathan,

If you simply want a filled shape, you can create a polygon with a fill color (See the Create a Polygon and Polygon Options help topics) or a boundary with a fill color (see Create a Boundary and Boundary Options).

David

Nathan,

In addition to the tips by David Kosakowski offered above, you'll find that for the case of a linestring if you set the property "Auto-close: = Yes", an additional field shows up under the "Appearance" category: "Draw filled:". Setting this to "Yes" will cause two more fields to appear below that allowing you to select fill color and fill transparency.

This may have been alluded to in previous replies, but using Business Center's Drafting tools, one can create filled or patterned hatched areas by selecting closed boundaries. An advantage that this method has over the simple "draw filled" option above is that you can create islands within larger boundaries, as shown below:

Are you aware of the command called Site Improvement Legend. While this does need to have a Site where you have applied Site Improvements to the surface, it does automatically create you the legend for just the Site Improvements that have been assigned, and it also lists the Material layers and the material thicknesses for each Site Improvement you placed.

While creating Site Improvements and Materials in the MSI Library takes a few minutes, the application of them to a surface does not require you to do the full takeoff - you can use the Assign Site Improvement command to place them, they then get color coded and flood filled directly and then you can run the Site Improvement Legend command to create the drawing legend in an automated way.

The benefit of using the SI approach is that the areas do not have to be closed polygons, you don't have to use track region to create them, and then assign properties to color them, so in reality the whole process should be faster than any other method, but you do need the Materials and Site Improvements defined in the MSI Library but that is reusable from project to project.

Hi Alan,

I was sure the Site Improvement Legend command was a thing previously, but after searching for it decided I must have imagined it!  After seeing this comment, I had another look and while it doesn't appear in the list in my command window, it does come up if I search for the command...

However, if I try to run it, I get the attached error - any ideas?

Thanks!

What number can I call you on Stevie - you need to do a few updates on your

end relating to TMLs and I can do it quickly over Go To Meeting if you have

the time

Alan

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