Perforated Metal?

[pcrossington]

Is there a way to get a perforated metal sheet modeled in AC without creating a thousand operators cutting holes through a surface? There's a perforated surface within AC that looks great, but it does not have actual perforations through it, its just a fill (see image below).

Thanks,

Phil

Operating system used: Mac Intel-based tahoe 26.5.2

[Barry Kelly]

Don't use textures in elevations.

It can make the files impossible to print in my experience.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

So nothing has changed...

[pcrossington]

I don't know what I'm missing, but none of this seems to work. it's not a critical path effort for me, so no worries...

[Lingwisyer]

Could you share a file with the problematic surface?

[Barry Kelly]

These images are from 25, but it is similar in 29.

Make sure the surface is set like this.

The texture needs to have an alpha channel - you seem to have this texture (it is a default Graphisoft texture).

Then in the 3D styles, make sure transparency is turned on.

That should be it.

Barry.