Anybody know of a way to make my coverage area color transparent? I want to be able to see the ground imagery below it (slightly).
Thanks!
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Hi there,
Here is some information I found in the User Help > Sketch Features > To add or modify coverage areas or create a hole in the terrain:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/ICD/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-2DDFAD4F-C5E8-488A-8EE6-6F006F58896F
To change the style of an existing coverage
Advanced Tips
Assigning the Transparent color material to a coverage renders that coverage feature with a transparent material. If there are other coverage features (with non-transparent materials assigned to them) that cover the same area, the transparent coverage reveals those materials.
Hello,
Yes I saw that article, so I know it must be possible! But I cannot figure out how to set the coverage area color to transparent. Under my style palette > colors, I only see fill or materials. I can't find where the opacity option is. Surface opacity under doesn't work either; that seems to play with the opacity of all objects within the entire model.
There are a few ways to accomplish this.
Mainly, you are going to want to edit the style of the coverage you are sketching, or create an entirely new coverage style. You can do this using the Style Palette.
Once you have opened the Style Palette, choose the Coverage tab. From there, you can add a new style, and customize the color of the new style to be transparent by browsing the "Fill Style" field and assigning the appropriate alpha value for transparency.
OR, to make it a bit easier, you can simply select an existing coverage style by double-clicking on that coverage in the style palette. From there, browse the "Fill Style" field, then select Materials tab, select Materials/Colors, and select Transparent.
I hope this helps!
looks like the 360 online scenario turns the transparency back to opaque...
anybody find a way to work around this so I can have my transparent coverage in 360 viewer??
Sorry, yes. I do have ground imagery under transparent coverage and both display nicely within the model in the desktop application. Screenshot attached: the model published in 360 viewer - the gray transparent that is supposed to overlay the ground imagery looks solid to me.
no attachment. please do let us know if you come up with anything! out of curiosity, do you work for Autodesk or are you a consultant/reseller/etc?