Entourage Tree Casting Circular Shade from Its Nested Detail Component

[azusaa]

Hi! I am trying to create a tree entourage family, which will be used in schematic design phase.

We would like to show green circle in plan representation. The family does not allow to use the filled region in it, so we created a detail component that has green circle filled region, placing it on foreground. It looks fine at this point.

When I turn on the shade, the tree casts a circular shade away from the tree.

I found a forum thread that tells me the shade is from the detail component, which automatically attach itself at the highest point of the entourage component... The thread ended telling me that you could add a height parameter and change the height of the shadow (i.e. so that the shadow won't be so far away from the tree). I created a reference  plane that is parallel to the ref plane, have the detail component associated with it, and give height parameter from ref plane to the new plane, but it has no effect, no matter what height parameter I set. The shadow remains as if it is casting from the top of the tree...

Is there any way to solve this issue? It does not have to be by the nested detail component, as long as the casted shadow is located at reasonable location... And yes, we tried to use an extrusion in stead of the detail component, but the circle shows up in 3D view and we would rather not to see that...

Any help will be appreciated! 

[GustavoUbriaco]

Hi @azusaa! can you share your family to see it?

[azusaa]

Here it is 🙂

[syman2000 · Accepted solution]

If you check off the Draw in foreground, the shadow is no longer there

However if you have overlapping fill region, it will show up the same color. So you may want to modify the family.

[GustavoUbriaco]

Got it you have to uncheck the draw in foreground of you detail itam as I show U in the image 

[GustavoUbriaco · Accepted solution]

Also I change the Height to a instance parameter and I clear the visibility graphics of the tree trunk for the RCP PLAN fFRONT LEFT AND RIGHT.

I have student version 2021 but here you are the file if you want to check it

[barthbradley · Accepted solution]

I would host the fill region on a Named Ref. Plane, Dimension it and label it to a Parameter that can control it's Height.  

[azusaa]

Thank you all! 

I thought I have to have the detail component set to "Draw in foreground", but it doesn't have to... Thank you, Syman 🙂 The second thing that seems to be important is having the height parameter to instance (Thank you, Gustavo!) And it doesn't have to be out of box height parameter either. I created new instance parameter "Shade height" and did as Barth said, and worked. 

Anyhow, now it works! Thank you!!