Thursday, May 29, 2008

Filled Region not transparent

One of the nice features in Revit, is to be able to make a filled region (hatch) transparent or opaque. This option is in the type properties of the filled region.

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However, one of our users complained that the filled region was NOT transparent even after setting this setting. See pic below. I was of the opinion that it was a display issue because of 'not enough memory'

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However, after sometime, she realized that the view was in 'wireframe' mode and once she changed this to 'Hidden', the filled region behaved correctly. See pic below. Seems a bit counter intuitive (things should be transparent in wireframe and vice versa!) but ironically this works like this in both revit architecture 2008 and revit architecture 2009.

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1 comment:

jordan5s said...

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhh yeeaaaaahhhh.... thank you for pointing this out, was trying to figure this out for so long!