Solid Colour Transparency in Surface Legend Tables

[neilyj666]

I've created my TIN Volume surface analysis with 40% transparency and also the Surface Legend table.

I can't figure out how to make the colours in this table transparent to match the surface i.e. which layer does  the colour in the table get created on??

Any ideas how I can get this to work??

Thanks

[neilyj666]

Update -

The colour ranges seem to be on the layer specified in Settings > Object Layers (in this case C-TABLE-SURFACE_LEGEND) but changing the transparency of this layer changes the transparency of all other components of the table style which isn't what I want to do - so still no further forward........

[machadt · Accepted solution]

Hi Neil,

What you are trying to do is not possible from the way that Civil 3D has the styles configured, the only way to accomplish this, is if you explode the table, create a new layer and move all the colors boxes to this new layer, after that you will be able to manipulate the transparency of this layer to match your surface.

Hope this help.

[neilyj666 · Accepted solution]

Thanks - it's at least confirmed that it is not possible to achieve and still retain the dynamic propertires of the table - presumably this shortcoming will be addressed in a future release

[sboon]

<< ROTFLMAO >>

[neilyj666]

2020 and still not been addressed....!!!!!

[tcorey]

Hey Neil,

It appears you were still naïve in 2012.   😉

Tim

[cwr-pae]

A half A'd work around, place a solid hatch in color 250 over the colors in the table, set the transparency of this hatch to around 1/2 the elevation layer transparency. It gets visually close enough as long as you don't have the table on top of or next to the  surface.

[neilyj666]

Thanks- I'll give this a try. I resorted to exploding a copy of the table.

This ability would be extremely useful to do OOTB but as it isn't BIM 360 or Infraworks related I suspect the workaround fudging solution will prevail.

[jennifer.googins]

I was able to solve this by creating two identical dynamic legend tables.  One on a layer that is not faded and one that is on a layer that is faded.  then I used the wipeout command to cover up the no transparent color squares and it looks perfect.