Confused about Render

[zdas04]

In AutoCAD 2006 I'm drawing the details under a 3-D surface and I want the surface to appear as a ghost image. I defined a material with 0.8 transparency and when I hit "View" "Render" I get exactly the image I want. Then if I do anything (scroll, zoom, change layouts, etc) it reverts to opaque.

Any ideas how to make the transparency stay?

David

 

[borgunit]

i believe you will have to MAP the surface material to have them "stick" to the object (from the little I know about it).

http://mechcad-insider.blogspot.com/

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"

 

[zdas04]

The map command didn't seem to do much, maybe I wasn't following the Help dialog very well. For now I generated a .bmp file, then deleted the view port and added the raster image back in where the viewport used to be. Looks nice, but changes are going to be tough.

David

 

[kander]

Try applying a coloured glass as you material that you wish to be transparent.