Old style hidden lines

[Anonymous]

I started using BM2 last year. My first project involved quite a bit of
piping work with some fairly complicated routing. I used iso views to
better show some of the piping interactions and using hideplot made for a
nice clean view. Now that I am using BS3 on a similar project, those nice
clean iso views do not exist anymore. If I use select display to try to get
an isometric model view, I can get a full wireframe pipe but I can't hide
the back sides of the pipes, or I can use the hideplot toggle on the
viewport and get massive chunks missing when one pipe crosses over another.
I seem to recall a dim memory of a command that lets you change the degree
to which a haloed line will obscure lines behind. Sorry if this is a bit
incoherent, but this is first thing in the morning and I have spent a lot of
time futzing around with this to try to get the same results I am used to
with the older version.

Mitch

[Anonymous]

Hi Mitch -

The non-display haloed lines are exactly the same in ABS 3 as you remember
them. You can access their controls in the Options Pages - Building Systems
Crossed Objects.

We feel the display rep implementation in ABS 3 is far superior. Once you
master the display system, I think you will agree too.

I hope this helps!


"Mitch Voigt" wrote in message
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> I started using BM2 last year. My first project involved quite a bit of
> piping work with some fairly complicated routing. I used iso views to
> better show some of the piping interactions and using hideplot made for a
> nice clean view. Now that I am using BS3 on a similar project, those nice
> clean iso views do not exist anymore. If I use select display to try to
get
> an isometric model view, I can get a full wireframe pipe but I can't hide
> the back sides of the pipes, or I can use the hideplot toggle on the
> viewport and get massive chunks missing when one pipe crosses over
another.
> I seem to recall a dim memory of a command that lets you change the degree
> to which a haloed line will obscure lines behind. Sorry if this is a bit
> incoherent, but this is first thing in the morning and I have spent a lot
of
> time futzing around with this to try to get the same results I am used to
> with the older version.
>
> Mitch
>
>