topic Re: Glazing transparancy in section window in Documentation

Glazing transparancy in section window

Scott Bulmer — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:23:13 GMT

I am stumped. When projecting a section/elevation, is there a way to prevent elements beyond the glass of a window from appearing in the window? Please see attached.
Thanks,
Scott

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:33:09 GMT

In the 3D window settings, set "Transparency in Shading" to OFF
Peter Devlin

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:40:35 GMT

...and remember to redefine your view.

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Scott Bulmer — Wed, 03 May 2006 02:07:25 GMT

You guys are geniuses! A little bit of an odd place for that setting though; a 2D window affected from a 3D image setting. Thank you so much again.
Scott

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2006 02:29:08 GMT

Scott wrote:
A little bit of an odd place for that setting though

No-one said it was supposed to make sense.

I just had a case where I had merrily set up 12 elevations (3 ele's of 4 options), saved the views, discovered trnasparency was on, I had to go to each saved view, change the 3D window settings to "transparency - off", close the 3D window, redefine the view, do the next one. It would make more sense to me for the transparency setting to be in the Section / Elevation marker, as is vectorial hatching and shadows.

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Scott Bulmer — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:27:54 GMT

Stewart Rose wrote:

It would make more sense to me for the transparency setting to be in the Section / Elevation marker, as is vectorial hatching and shadows.

Agreed for section/elevations. But I'm not so sure one would even need transparency in the S/E window, I never have. To me the S/E's are typically more for construction document drawings where you don't need to see what is beyond the window, only that there is a window. transparency is fine and good for the 3D imaging stuff.

You also brought up another point; when one changes the 3D settings, the 3D window always opens generating an unwanted image/waste of time. Do you know of a way to suspend that action?

Thanks again Stewart
Scott

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Fri, 05 May 2006 03:55:52 GMT

I thought there was a way to suspend the 3D window from opening, had a (quick) look but couldn't find it. Maybe it was removed in AC9?

Cheers

Stuart (with a U)

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Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

David Maudlin — Fri, 05 May 2006 12:06:04 GMT

Scott wrote:
You also brought up another point; when one changes the 3D settings, the 3D window always opens generating an unwanted image/waste of time. Do you know of a way to suspend that action?

Scott:

Go to Options>Work Environment>User Preference Schemes>Imaging and Calculation>3D Window Rebuild Controls. After changing this, remember to Redefine your scheme to make the change part of your Work Environment.

HTH

David

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Scott Bulmer — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:08:05 GMT

David Maudlin wrote:

Go to Options>Work Environment>User Preference Schemes>Imaging and Calculation>3D Window Rebuild Controls. After changing this, remember to Redefine your scheme to make the change part of your Work Environment.

David,
That works great, however AC needs to be restarted for the change to take affect and/or work properly.
Thanks so much,
Scott

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:32:39 GMT

Scott wrote:
David Maudlin wrote:
Go to Options>Work Environment>User Preference Schemes>Imaging and Calculation>3D Window Rebuild Controls. After changing this, remember to Redefine your scheme to make the change part of your Work Environment.
David,
That works great, however AC needs to be restarted for the change to take affect and/or work properly.
Thanks so much,
Scott

There shouldn't be any need to restart ArchiCAD. You do need to apply the settings when you make changes to the Work Environment.

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:51:35 GMT

s2art wrote:
Scott wrote:
I just had a case where I had merrily set up 12 elevations (3 ele's of 4 options), saved the views, discovered trnasparency was on, I had to go to each saved view, change the 3D window settings to "transparency - off", close the 3D window, redefine the view, do the next one...

Theoretically... (don't remember if I tried it, but I think I did) shouldn't it work to just open the first view, and then redefine all the other views without opening them? I would think that since you're only changing the settings, you should not have to open each view in order to redefine it.

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Mon, 08 May 2006 20:42:29 GMT

Sergio wrote:
s2art wrote:
Scott wrote:
I just had a case where I had merrily set up 12 elevations (3 ele's of 4 options), saved the views, discovered trnasparency was on, I had to go to each saved view, change the 3D window settings to "transparency - off", close the 3D window, redefine the view, do the next one...
Theoretically... (don't remember if I tried it, but I think I did) shouldn't it work to just open the first view, and then redefine all the other views without opening them? I would think that since you're only changing the settings, you should not have to open each view in order to redefine it.

Yes, except you don't need to open any particular view at all. In the view editor you can select any number of views and redefine them all to the current settings. Besides scale and display options this will also reset the dimension settings and 3D transparency. Naturally it is usually best not to select views of different types when you do this.

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2006 00:41:39 GMT

Is it not the case that if you have view A open, redefine it, select view B from your view set (but don't open it) then redefine B, it is now the same as view A?

Re: Glazing transparancy in section window

TomWaltz — Tue, 09 May 2006 01:27:44 GMT

s2art wrote:
Is it not the case that if you have view A open, redefine it, select view B from your view set (but don't open it) then redefine B, it is now the same as view A?

No, only its settings apply (Layer Combination, Scale, etc). There is no way to change the source View of a saved view.