topic Re: Window opacity in Elevations in Modeling

Window opacity in Elevations

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 13:01:05 GMT

I have a plan which I started in AC9 some time ago, and all of the windows are opaque in the elevations (and in the 3d window), which is how we like to display them on all projects.

Somewhere along the way I lost the settings that kept them that way. I have done exhaustive A-B comparisons in all of the elevation settings, 3d window settings, made sure that the materials of the windows are the same (even importing them from the older document), and read everything I could search for here on the nets. No change. I can turn transparency on & off in the elevations, but can't get the windows to show anything other than white.

Any suggestions? Just when you think you're becoming quite adept at AC, something reminds you you're not the drafting god...

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Link — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:59:05 GMT

Transparency is assigned to your views. In AC9 you'll need to redefine them while transparency is on. In AC10 you'll need to recreate your views with transparency on, due to a bug.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:28:52 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

I can replace my views with transparency on or off and they do display as defined, but it's the quality of the opacity that I want to change. I have the views defined with the windows opaque, but can only get white rather than the gray I used to have.

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Link — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:29:51 GMT

Can you please upload a before & after screenshot?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:55:13 GMT

To get a gray tone, I had to duplicate one of the glass materials
in the Materials editing window and adjust the color then
change the default glass material parameter in my doors
and windows to use this new material.
Peter Devlin

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:52:37 GMT

I tried to redefine the materials as mentioned, tried importing the material definitions in the Attribute Manager, and even tried using siding or stone to see what would happen. The vectorial lines from the pattern show up, but the windows stay white...

(I tried to add two pics, but it would only allow me to add one.)

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:30:38 GMT

Here is the pic of the way they look now...

Re: Window opacity in Elevations

Link — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:06:11 GMT

Maybe the solution to your problem is explained here?

Cheers,
Link.