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making glass transparent

Anonymous
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‎2008-12-06 07:51 PM - last edited on ‎2023-05-11 01:56 PM by Community Admin

How do I set the glass to be transparent in the 3d shading.
I'm using a standard AC 10 library part - the 4 panel sliding glass door.
I notice in my old smart parts real windows and doors there is a setting under parameters - 3d features that turns solid glass off. I can not find a like setting in the AC10 door.

I'm running ac10 on a powermac 2 x 2.66 dual core intel

Thanks
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Karl Ottenstein
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‎2008-12-06 08:13 PM

jparchitect wrote:
How do I set the glass to be transparent in the 3d shading.
I don't know what you mean by 3D 'shading'. The mechanism differs depending on where you are not seeing transparency.

Do you mean the OpenGL 3D window?

Rendering?

Section/elevation?

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
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Anonymous
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‎2008-12-06 09:19 PM

Using perspective setting I have created a perspective - then under View -
3D view mode - I have selected Shading

Internal 3d engine is checked

Thanks so much !
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Anonymous
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‎2008-12-06 09:59 PM

Edit->3D window settings->Transparency in shading ON/OFF
Peter Devlin
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Anonymous
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‎2008-12-06 10:28 PM

I got it -

For the door - under model I needed to select " use objects materials"

That made it transparent - evidently the default material is not glass

Sure is nice to get help on a Saturday !

Thanks to all !
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Anonymous
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‎2008-12-07 12:24 AM

JP
If you have not already done this.
One more thing you might want to consider.
In my opinion, the stock "glass" is kinda deadsville.
Look under: Options>Element Attributes>Materials.
Make a copy of the stock glass.
Name it whatever.
Change the color to something you like.
Start with Transmittance around say roughly 30%
I like the soft blue hue reflections you would get on a clear day, also contrasts nicely with warm tones on exterior walls.
Bier
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