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C3D 2013 - Surface transparency (elevation)

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diegoal
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‎04-17-2012 07:18 AM
‎04-17-2012 07:18 AM

C3D 2013 - Surface transparency (elevation)

Hello all,

 

In the previous C3D 2012 version I was able to set surface transparency just setting it on a layer with defined transparency. Example: I set my "existing ground" surface to a created  "EG" layer (example name) and set transparency layer to 50% (example, again) and it WORKS! My surface become transparent...

 

But now, in the C3D 2013, I can't get the same results... my surface is not getting transparent. I already tried to turn off/on hardware acceleration and adaptive degradation and show/hide transparency.

 

More details: I can get transparency on points, triangles, contours etc... but not on elevation, and this is my priority.

 

Thanks very much and sorry for my bad english,

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ezick
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‎10-12-2012 02:37 PM
‎10-12-2012 02:37 PM

thanks for the discussion.  Hardware acceleration 'on' was the difference maker.

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autoMick
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‎11-23-2012 06:22 PM
‎11-23-2012 06:22 PM

Folks - I'm after an update on this topic.

 

I have the same issue - I have a volume surface displayed as 2D elevation. I wish to make this surface display 50% transparent (overlay on aerial photograph), I've tried the suggestions in this thread to date. My graphics card is a consumer nvidea card rather than quadro, but I really doubt that is the issue. Have Autodesk fixed the problem that they acknowledged in neilyj's post?

 

Thanks

 

- Mick

Civil3d user in Australia since 2012.
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neilyj666
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‎11-24-2012 02:22 AM
‎11-24-2012 02:22 AM

no still doesnt work. they are too busy catfarting around with the likes of infrastructure modeller to address the bugs introduced in 2013. perhaps service pak will

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neilyj666
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‎11-24-2012 02:23 AM
‎11-24-2012 02:23 AM

...fix it but im not holding my breath on this as usual

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autoMick
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‎11-24-2012 01:57 PM
‎11-24-2012 01:57 PM

I guess we'll just have to wait for this elusive service pack then...

Civil3d user in Australia since 2012.
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neilyj666
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‎11-25-2012 02:22 AM
‎11-25-2012 02:22 AM

no guarantees of it being fixed.......

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rbunner
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‎12-21-2012 12:37 PM
‎12-21-2012 12:37 PM

I noticed that this still hasn't been fixed.  Very disappointing since I switched over to 2013 and I KNOW it worked well in 2012.  I use the transparency for the elevation all the time so that I can use images and other features in the drawing.  PLEASE FIX!!!Smiley Frustrated

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diegoal
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‎12-21-2012 12:54 PM
‎12-21-2012 12:54 PM

Yes rbunner, no fix at all.. I can't understand why they went backwards like this.

I tried to change Visual Style to realistic or shaded... I was able to get surface transparency but it demands a lot of my processor or graphic card... Can't work with this...

Let's see the C3D 2013 SP2...

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ceethreedee.com
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‎01-21-2013 03:08 PM
‎01-21-2013 03:08 PM

We are now in 2013 and i am sure all of you are awaiting a fix for this. I am now well and truly sick of exploding my surfaces to get transparency to work in them.

 

Looking forward to update to fix!.

 

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rbunner
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‎04-15-2014 11:41 AM
‎04-15-2014 11:41 AM

Does anyone know if this has been fixed in 2014 or 2015?

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diegoal
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‎04-15-2014 03:31 PM
‎04-15-2014 03:31 PM

Yes. C3D 2014 fixed this problem, but in a different way.
Now surface transparency is given by elevation or triangle layer
transparency.
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HQGL01
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in reply to: diegoal
‎06-11-2018 01:09 PM
‎06-11-2018 01:09 PM

This worked for me, changing layer transparency.

 

Thank you!

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