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    Default Transparent View

    Hey all, I am trying to figure out how to make something display a certain way for my when I'm working. Hopefully you will be able to help me figure out a good method?


    I would like to have varying floors, slabs and walls in different colors.
    Example:
    Walls = grey
    thin slab = light purple
    thick slab = dark purple.

    I would also like them to be partially transparent (It seems that 25% works well).
    This way, when elements are "hidden" by other objects, I can still see them, but the linetype and shading "stacks" to form another color.

    The beauty combining these 2 methods is that I can easily identify what is "hidden" and still select object outlines.

    This provides me a quick and dirty way of chcecking thicknesses and good for a 3D slice to flush out wall/floor connections.


    However, the only way I have been able to get it to work properly is to create individual material types with different colors and transparencies.
    However, I understand this isn't the best practice because materials is globally tied to the objects and will affect other people's Shaded View.

    So I have been trying to use the View Templates + Filters + Color overrides there.
    However, It doesn't seem to shade objects "hidden". It can only seem to apply a surface pattern with a solid hatch. Also, transparent objects don't "stack" the colors of shaded patterns and linework.


    Are you guys aware of anyway I a bit more function out of my view filter override?

    thanks!

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    Default Re: Transparent View

    Ditto, bump.

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