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Glass problems

Anonymous
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I'm trying to get my material "glass" to show up as both transparent (in the model) and solid (on the elevations and sections) by using "3d window Settings_Transparency in Shading: on/off." This worked in v.7 but not in 8.1. In 8.1, I cannot get the transparency to turn solid in the sections and elevations.

ajo
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Anonymous
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I have just verified this problem on an 11mb file created in 8.0. In both projects, the windows are created with walls using glass as the material. Neither the 3D window or the SE in hidden line mode will change w/o opening the wall tool settings. The 3D shaded mode toggles correctly.

mabe
G5 dual, 2Ghz, 1mb
Anonymous
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Are you using 8.0 or 8.1?
Anonymous
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I'm in 8.1. The first project was created in 8.1, the 2nd in 8.0, but opened in 8.1. Now that you mention it, I don't recall having this problem in 8.0.

Taking this a step further, I just opened someone else's 8.0 project in 8.0. Initially, changing transparency in 3D from off to on, then rebuilding resulted in the glass becoming transparent. But then reversing the process, no effect unless I select the glass, open tool settings, ok; then glass becomes opaque. The only difference is the glass transparency is the default 90%, I've adjusted the transparencies to various settings on the other 2 projects.

I am regenerating the hidden line fly-through, and had to select the doors (in 3D window), open & close, to get the doors to appear correctly. I have run across a few others in ArchiCAD Talk having problems with doors appearing as solid blocks, but haven't had time to follow that thread.