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    ezick
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    Re: C3D 2013 - Surface transparency (elevation)

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    10-12-2012 02:37 PM in reply to: diegoal

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

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    Re: C3D 2013 - Surface transparency (elevation)

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    11-23-2012 06:22 PM in reply to: ezick

    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

     

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    11-24-2012 02:22 AM in reply to: diegoal
    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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    11-24-2012 02:23 AM in reply to: diegoal
    ...fix it but im not holding my breath on this as usual
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    11-24-2012 01:57 PM in reply to: neilyj

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

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    11-25-2012 02:22 AM in reply to: diegoal
    no guarantees of it being fixed.......
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    12-21-2012 12:37 PM in reply to: diegoal

    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!!!:smileyfrustrated:

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    12-21-2012 12:54 PM in reply to: rbunner

    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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    01-21-2013 03:08 PM in reply to: diegoal

    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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