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Make Glass Rails on elevation Transparent

ELEVATE
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Is there a way to make the glass material on the glass rail Transparent without changing the transparent settings in the elevation tag?  I want the glass in the rails to be transparent so I can see the wall information behind them.  I want to keep all the glass windows on the building opaque.  (FYI: The opening line you see in this elevation is linework.)  see screenshot. Thank you.

 

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Operating system used: Windows 23H2

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cuba
Expert

One way to do this:

Make two different glass materials: one for the window glass and one for the railing glass.

Make the transparancy level in the material of the window glas > 50% and for the railing glass < 50%

Glass

Scherm­afbeelding 2024-10-25 om 19.23.50.png

Glass railing:

Scherm­afbeelding 2024-10-25 om 19.23.58.png

 

Scherm­afbeelding 2024-10-25 om 19.23.12.png

 

Other option: put the railing in a layer with wireframe.

 

Scherm­afbeelding 2024-10-25 om 19.27.41.png

Apple M1 Max 32 GB Ventura
AC27
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin

Just a small correction:

It is the Railing Glass the Surface of which has to have a Transmittance setting of over 50 (since you want to see through the Railing Glass), not the Door Glass (that needs to have a Surface with a Transmittance setting equal to or below 50 to stay opaque).

 

By the way, I encountered a small glitch - I am in the Elevation, I modify the Transmittance value of my Glass Surface, I rebuild the Elevation, but the change is not reflected in the Railing Glass Transparency. This is in Ac28. I found if I issue the "Rebuild and Regenerate" command (CRTL+ALT+SHIFT+R), that always guarantees that the Elevation does regenerate and all changes will be reflected in it.

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2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27

I have observed that behaviour in Archicad 27 too.

ARCHICAD 28 SPA
Windows 10

Thanks, good to know. I will report this to GS HQ.

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AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27

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