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transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:39:11 GMT

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!

Re: transparent coverage area?

elliott.rosenfeld — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:59:41 GMT

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

Select the coverage and right-click to open the context menu, then click Properties.
In the Properties Palette, double-click on the style selected under the Manual Style field.
Click the browse button to view available coverage styles.
Click on a new coverage style and click OK, then click Update to apply that style to the coverage(s) you selected.

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.

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:03:26 GMT

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.

Re: transparent coverage area?

elliott.rosenfeld — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:14:59 GMT

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!

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:17:12 GMT

worked perfectly! thank you very much!

Re: transparent coverage area?

elliott.rosenfeld — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:31:21 GMT

you're welcome glad it worked!

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:31:51 GMT

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??

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:24:56 GMT

hi, Would you please attach a screenshot of the issue you are encountering? I ran into the issue that the grounded images are not shown under the transparent coverage, but the coverage itself is still transparent. It will be helpful if you could attach a screenshot so that I can have more details of your issue. Best regards,

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:04:18 GMT

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.

Re: transparent coverage area?

451457 — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:19:12 GMT

Thanks for the screenshot. The coverage is misleading,it's the issue we are aware(see attached defect.png). Development team is looking into this issue. Will update to you for any progress. Sorry for inconvenience.

Re: transparent coverage area?

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:47:54 GMT

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?

Re: transparent coverage area?

Nora.Li — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 06:44:39 GMT

just realize I replied you with another testing account. sorry. here is the attachment: you see the issue here: you may think the coverage is not transparent, but it's actually transparent as we can see the railway under it, the misses things are terrain and grounded images below it. I think your issue is the same as shown in this screenshot, right? Best regards, Nora

Re: transparent coverage area?

Nora.Li — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:05:25 GMT

here is the attachment

Re: transparent coverage area?

Nora.Li — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:11:39 GMT

why all my attachments are not displayed?