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sfountain

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Is it possible to control the visibility or transparency of a glass element? i have a window with a grille on the exterior surface that does not show thru on the interior view (in a hidden line elevation) 

i was hoping to assign a parameter to the glass that would make it not visible in certain views, perhaps as a toggle or something?

thanks.... 

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JAMESHGRIMES

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Open the family and select the glass element. You should see a Visibility button show up in the design bar above the drawing screen. Click this button and uncheck the respective views you don't want to show the glass in(i.e. Left/Right, Front/Back)

You could also place some symbolic lines in elevation views to show where the grid is. Symbolic lines only show in view parallel to the view they were created in.

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sfountain

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thanks for the advice. i did try turning the visibility for the glass off in elevation, but for some reason it still shows up,

so i guess I've either missed a global setting that i dont know of, or the model itself has a problem. The glass does render transparent  in a shaded view though.

i decided to just make two families of the same window - one has glass, and one does not. this way i still get the benefits of having the grille adjust as the window does, and the grille shows up in any view.  should i need to render a perspective view, i can just 'swap out' the families.not the best, but it'll do for now...

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