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Transparent colors

Samuel EBULU-AMOUDA
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Are transparent colors available in Archicad? Can they be created? How?

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runxel
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Depends on your definition of "color".

You can create translucent and transparetn materials.

Fills can have pen number zero in the background, which makes them translucent.

Pens however are always solid, and so are all lines.

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runxel
Legend

Depends on your definition of "color".

You can create translucent and transparetn materials.

Fills can have pen number zero in the background, which makes them translucent.

Pens however are always solid, and so are all lines.

Lucas Becker | AC 27 on Mac | Graphisoft Insider Panelist | Author of Runxel's Archicad Wiki | Editor at SelfGDL | Developer of the GDL plugin for Sublime Text | My List of AC shortcomings & bugs | I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again |

POSIWID – The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does /// «Furthermore, I consider that Carth... yearly releases must be destroyed»
ZuMedeiros
Graphisoft
Graphisoft

You can create transparent surfaces, transparent fills... What do you need?

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