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JoshSwear

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Is it possible to have model text filled in? I creat it but it shows this "bubble text" with just bold letters that are outlined and white in the middle. Best I can do on my own so far is look at it in realistic colors and it infils gray. I need it to be black when shown on no color. Is this possible?

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Did you happen to check your HELP or even the properties of you model text?  If you click on your text and look at the properties you can add a material the text.  And in the material you can change the surface pattern and color, in your case you want a solid black surface pattern

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JoshSwear

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I did that, nothing changed. I even changed the surface pattern and still nothing. Is it something that would need to be printed to have it show up?

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teafoe5

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No, you are not doing something right. Show me an image of you materials you assigned to your text

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same as yours, I even tried the add a cut pattern as shown in the picture incase the view was cutting through it and nothing.

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JoshSwear

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I found the issue. I need it to show up that color in a 2D floor plan view, not just in 3D. That is the issue.

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So you fixed the problem then?  There is still no issue from 3D to 2D it still works.  The image in the last post was a 3D and the one in this post is 2D.  Model text is 3D so it will show up everywhere.

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JoshSwear

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Then no the issue isn't fixed. It shows up in 3D, not in 2D for me.

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What Revit version? Do you have all of the updates installed?  Can you attach an image of your material settings like I asked before? 

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nevermind I figured it out. I had multiple views named the same and one of the settings had it turned off. Thank you.

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Hi.

I found this thread and am having the same issue, but I cannot find "...settings had it turned off" (these settings).  My model text shows fine in the family editor but not in the plan view of my building model.  

I have the properties for the material set as noted above, but I cannot make the model text solid.  What am I missing?

Ian

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