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I'm looking for reasons here to convince the company to upgrade to X4.
We just upgraded to X3 back in April.

Improved Smart Walls with Hatching and Fill Properties
DataCAD 14 adds hatching and fill options to the Wall Type Manager.

I need to know if this feature will allow different wall fill/hatches in different views.
For example:
In a design view, I want the walls Filled Solid.
In a condoc 1/4" plan view, I want walls to match a Wall Legend...some with hatch, some without.
In a condoc 1/8" framing view, I want no fill perhaps...or some to represent load bearing walls.

Without that functionality, this feature will be almost of no use to me.
With it I can see significant amounts of time saved not having to go back and revise wall fills on design drawings to match construction drawings.
(Design always adjusts at least a little as it makes way thru CD's)

Thanks.

Short answer would be, sort of:

The fill setting are part of the Smart Wall Type. You can globally turn the fill/hatching on/off for each wall type. Additionally you could have different wall types for each of your views and use the Search & Replace function to globally change them from one type to another.

Hope this helps.

Ug...not at all the answer I was hoping for, but thanks.