topic Re: Autocad to Archicad for tracing everything in Modeling

Autocad to Archicad for tracing everything

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 06:17:51 GMT

I make every detail of a building in Autocad, then I want to trace them in archicad. After placing the walls in the position I cannot see the location of window and door in the drawing I imported from autocad. Is there any way of playing with the transparency of wall while working in 2D view.

Re: Autocad to Archicad for tracing everything

David Maudlin — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:51:43 GMT

Bishnu:

I would create a Graphic Override (GO) Rule that sets all Cut Fills to Transparent, then add that Rule to a new GO Combination. That way you can turn the fills on and off easily when tracing the plan.

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Re: Autocad to Archicad for tracing everything

Richard Morrison — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:28:12 GMT

There are also sliders in the Trace and Reference dialog box that will let you adjust the visual intensity of both the active view and the Trace view independently. You can set the active view lower and the reference view higher.

Re: Autocad to Archicad for tracing everything

Barry Kelly — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:41:23 GMT

Also in Trace & Reference dialogue you can turn on 'Fill and Zone Transparency'.
There should also be 'splitters' at the side of the screen that you can slide across to see the reference underneath.
And you can toggle the reference so it is on top.

Barry.