Wall Airspace should be transparent

[Anonymous]

I have large air spaces in my walls for ductwork and plumbing, the material itself is fully transparent in both Appearance and Graphics. It is also marked as an airspace in the wall definition. Despite this, the walls only show the plumbing that traverses through the view, nothing in "elevation". It's like the wall is filled with white "Goop" instead of being empty.

It would be nice for airspaces to just show what is inside the wall cavities, especially if it is marked as a wall airspace and totally transparent. This would help with coordination.

[pieter1]

This would also be very helpful with creating layered glass (double paned etc) panels and walls.

[RichConyers]

There should at least be an option for the material to show as transparent (material being air gap). Sometimes you may want this opaque to not show floors etc that may be modeled under the walls. 

[wr.marshall]

When creating the layers for a cavity wall, it draws it fine in plan/section views, but draws it as a solid mass in 3D. Be Nice if it actually drew the wall as 2 individual walls which are automatically grouped in some way. See attached screen shotCavity Wall Drawn as 1 wall with 3 layers & 2 single walls

[awasyliw]

If you go in to a 3D view, enable section box then reduce the box to cut through a cavity wall you can see it actually already does this when viewing the wall in section. 

The problem is when you are viewing an end or top of a wall, it automatically 'wraps' this surface with one material. When you have a layer set to 'wrap' this makes sense... for the sides of walls.

It would be much more sensible if the top of walls automatically displayed the wall layers as it does when sectioned. It would also be much more sensible if walls which have no wrapping layers displayed all the layers on the sides of walls.

[wr.marshall]

related idea: bug Slanted and Tapered Walls - Autodesk Community

[wr.marshall]

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