topic Openings appearing as transparent ghost in Modeling

Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:28:30 GMT

I've looked in MVO, Renovation Filter, and Object settings, but still appear as transparent opaque. Ideas?

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:29:59 GMT

Check Graphic Override settings. It seems to me that the Surface of Doors may be overridden with a transparent Surface.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:11:19 GMT

Checked that also, but it is set to "No Overrides". Adding more images of Graphic Overrides, Renovation Graphic Overrides, and MVOs for Doors.

LaszloNagy wrote:
Check Graphic Override settings. It seems to me that the Surface of Doors may be overridden with a transparent Surface.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:12:06 GMT

Screenshots of MVO settings.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:45:05 GMT

What are the Building Material/Surface settings of the Door?

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:23:40 GMT

Set it to a color that another opening (a window) has set. The window shows the changes.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:28:44 GMT

Showing the door versus window opening. Both are using the same material, yet the window shows it but the door doesnt.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Barry Kelly — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:47:17 GMT

I see both the doors and windows are set to 'Simplified' detail level in 3D in the MVO settings.
Try changing this to 'Detailed'.
The door may be set to use the MVO settings and the window may be set to use its own settings (and not the MVO).

Barry.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Richard Morrison — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:17:02 GMT

My guess is that the doors got accidentally tagged as existing, which may have a transparent override. (Overrides are shown for existing elements.)

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Barry Kelly — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:21:57 GMT

Maybe also try changing the door leaf?

Barry.

Re: Openings appearing as transparent ghost

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:01:54 GMT

RESULT: The Transparency box was checked under 3D Styles.

Thanks for the responses and advice. I've looked at Graphisoft's explanation:

Check this to produce transparent views of elements that have the appropriate Surfaces setting when generating a shaded view. Below, the same glass wall appears with Transparency Off and On.

Follow up question is this:
I tried several different surfaces (ones that showed up with a window opening), before unchecking the transparency box, but still it showed up as transparent. Where/how do I control the "appropriate Surfaces settings" of the door's transparency?