David Light wrote a post about getting stairs to display better when color fill legends are involved. Then Brian Mackey wrote a post to offer another solution. David's approach involves using a solid fill and matching color to "blend" the color fill and the solid fill colors. Brian's involves using the new "Ghost Surfaces" feature.
To offer my two cents I wrote a comment to David's post after reading his. I mentioned what happens when we use the "Transparent" option for categories in Visibility/Graphics or using Override Graphics in View feature > By Element.
This is what you see on screen (using the "Transparent" option to "Override Graphics in View > By Element")(uh oh):
And this is what you get when you print (oh? okay):
Intrigued because I didn't bother to try the approach Brian suggested, I tried it. Using the "Ghost Surfaces" option to "Override Graphics in View > By Element" you see this on screen (looking good):
This is what you get when you print (oh, not so good):
Tag...you guys are "it"! :)
To offer my two cents I wrote a comment to David's post after reading his. I mentioned what happens when we use the "Transparent" option for categories in Visibility/Graphics or using Override Graphics in View feature > By Element.
This is what you see on screen (using the "Transparent" option to "Override Graphics in View > By Element")(uh oh):
And this is what you get when you print (oh? okay):
Intrigued because I didn't bother to try the approach Brian suggested, I tried it. Using the "Ghost Surfaces" option to "Override Graphics in View > By Element" you see this on screen (looking good):
This is what you get when you print (oh, not so good):
Tag...you guys are "it"! :)
5 comments:
Used vector, raster does appear to print the view without any masking.
LOL, I must admit I was going to post on David's post with the comment about making stairs transparent as an alternative because this is what we usually do to overcome the problem...But, i tested it and noticed the results were as per your post and thought i must have been wrong. (i didnt do a test print) I'm sure that making stairs transparent didn't used to create funny screen graphics?
When will revit make a plugin that can read your mind? This would solve most problems.
In the Properties palette for the View settings. Go to the Graphics category & you'll see "Color Scheme Location" parameter. Change it from Background to Foreground.
Great foreground worked for the actual stair, but not the UP /DN label. Is there a way to force this text label to not mask?
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