transparent filled regions aren't really transparent

[Justin Marchiel]

Have anyone had success makeing a solid filled region transparent? I know that the system families are hard wired to be trans or opaque, so i started with a transparent one, used a solid fill, and still it covers my model.

Does any one else have a solution for this? I am trying to create some shade on my apshalt parking lot and am having no luck with a transparent filled (solid) region.

thanks

Justin

[johnf.77896]

Justin have you tried to use a fill pattern that has a crosshatched line pattern with a line spacing of say 1/32"? You will probably need to adjust it accordingly for you drawing and scale but should be somewhere to start.

John Fleming
GMK Architecture, inc.

[aaronrumple]

Have anyone had success makeing a solid filled region transparent? I know that the system families are hard wired to be trans or opaque, so i started with a transparent one, used a solid fill, and still it covers my model.

Does any one else have a solution for this? I am trying to create some shade on my apshalt parking lot and am having no luck with a transparent filled (solid) region.

thanks

JustinWhy not use a floor for the parking and assign a solid pattern as the surface pattern?

[Justin Marchiel]

i thought about the floor, but my site slopes in a few directions and i thought that a floor would be more cumbersome. I used subregions and jsut attached the filled regions to the edges of the subregions.

Justin

[patricks]

In a filled region, you have a pattern of black (or whatever color) lines on a white background. The opaque/transparent setting controls the white background only. So if transparent, the white background will show whatever is behind the filled region. If opaque, the white background is solid.

When you use a solid fill, the entire region is the foreground line, and no white background is showing, so the opaque/transparent setting has no effect when using a solid filled region.

[aggockel50321]

If the subregion is defining the area to be shaded, you could have different shades of asphalt, by creating new material types of asphalt, and varying the color there.

[Justin Marchiel]

topo surfaces dont support surface patterns. that is where and why i started with a work around.

Justin

[aggockel50321]

Take a look at them in a shaded view...

[Justin Marchiel]

i was creating the shade for construction drawings and the shaded view is too presentation like. good suggestion but not quite what i was looking for.
Justin