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2024-03-21 01:02 AM
Is there a way to have the glass display as grey in the white model in elevation? I tried the graphic override, but it overrides the whole door / window package instead of just the glass.
Operating system used: Windows 10
2024-03-21 02:17 AM - edited 2024-03-21 02:48 AM
As you have discovered, Graphic Overrides will override the entire element, not just a particular part of it.
Duplicate your glass material and call it something like "tinted glass".
Now in the surface materials settings, add a 50% hatch and choose the pen colour for the hatch.
Change the window glass material to the 'tinted glass' one.
Make sure in the elevation/section settings, your Model Display > Uncut Elements are set to 'Uniform pen'
Pen - colour fill is transparent (or white).
Surface - Cover Fill Foreground is turned on.
Now you will see the hatch pattern in the section/elevation - and individual windows can have different glass materials.
Only problem is it is not a switch you can turn on/off in view settings (MVO).
You could now set up a Graphic Override to make all tinted glass material an empty fill - this will affect the entire frame but you shouldn't notice as the rest of the frame has no fill anyway.
Barry.