Seeing through openings

[gregcashen]

I remember a while back there was a post regarding changing the visibility of the model behind an opening. Essentially, you could turn off the visibility of everything beyond the opening. I don't know if this was a wishist item or a feature...but I am curious how I access it.

TIA

[sbrown]

You need to adjust the far clip plane, this is defind by the green dashed line with grips that appears in plan when you pick on the elevation tag arrow or the section line, just adjust that so it doesn't extend past what you want to show.

[gregcashen]

I have done this. I thought there was a setting that determined whether you could see through an opening. I could have dreamed it all. :?

[sbrown]

I think you are thinking of making the opening visible or not with in the family. open the family(ie a door) go to a 3d view and tab until you find the opening, the pick visibility and adjust that to be on in elevation, I'm not sure if this does what you want or not, I haven't actually tried.

[Steve_Stafford]

Some openings are using an "opening" object that are opaque by design...If you want to see beyond the opening and "can't" even though the view depth is enough to do so...you need to alter the opening family so that it uses _______ (fill in the blank someone, I can't remember what type of void or opening is required here!)

Is this what you are talking about?

[gregcashen]

Alright, I found what I was looking for. In the opening family, if you select the opening, the Options Bar has an option called "Transparent In:" and the choices are "3D" and "Elevation".

That did the trick!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. :)