About Creating a Filled Area
You can display cross-sectional drawing views as filled areas (displayed in solid color) by changing the crosshatch to fill, but you must first create the cross-sectional view.
To switch between a hatched and filled cross section, double click the area and use the Hatch and Fill commands in the MOD XHATCH menu manager.
When creating filled cross-sectional drawing views, keep in mind the following rules:
• You can create filled cross sections only in views without clipping. If you attempt to change the crosshatch of a clipped view (such as a detailed view, broken view), the system issues an error message and does not allow you to proceed.
• If a cross-sectional view that you want to fill has detailed views, the system warns you that this view has dependent children views before allowing you to make the change. The detailed view appears without either crosshatch or filling; you can then set its crosshatch to be independent of its parent.
• You can modify only planar cross sections to be filled.