placing drawings in elevations

[Anonymous]

it's just a bit annoying but when i place drawings that have a white background, they show as having a black background in the elevation window but are fine (i.e. transparent background) when i print.

is there a way to turn on transparent background in the elevation window?

[Djordje]

Do you have Artlantis?

Check >disk<:\Program Files\Artlantis\Medias\Objects\2D Billboards\Vegetation 2D

You can use any of them, and it will work.

[Anonymous]

i don't unfortunately. i only have ac10 and i'm very grateful for it. i use it only for projects that i design and build myself so i can't really justify spending more on other software as i only design 2/3 projects per year. the bitmaps i have come from anywhere on the net where they are free!

i have looked into the alpha channel on corel photopaint and it corresponds exactly to the part of the bitmap i want to hide. i have tried to save in other formats and although another part has become transparent, it's still far from a good result...

[Djordje]

Then go to archicado.free.fr and download some ...

[Anonymous]

i can't believe it was the image file all along...

tried the website site and the files work a treat - thank you so much Djordje

[Anonymous]

one last question - is it possible to make these billboards cast shadows or is that asking too much?!

[Djordje]

Derek wrote:
one last question - is it possible to make these billboards cast shadows or is that asking too much?!

If they were proper 3D objects, they would have. See the ArchiFacade hint below. And it would probably slow down the S/E generation significantly.