transparency in unrendered display

[Brooke]

Somehow some formerly opaque fills became transparent, so a white fill looked like it was not filled and I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure that one out but assigned another color fill only to find out that it was somewhat transparent. How to fix; how to assign? Atribute palette does not appear to show transparency though it seems it should.

[Travis]

Transparency can also be assigned by Class. Check your class setting to see if you have transparency set to something other than 100%.

Good luck,

[Jonathan Pickup]

in VectorWorks 2008 you can assign transparency from the attribute palette, but not VectorWorks 12. I think it?s layer transparency in VectorWorks 12. So check your layer settings.

If anyone wants detailed exercises covering this, it is one of the topics I covered in my online user group last year. if you join the user group, you can see the back issues...

[Guest]

It's a setting for the layer - edit the layer and set the "Transfer Mode" to Paint. It's likely set to "Overlay" or "Opacity"

[Brooke]

Thanks, folks, but no dice. All layers 'transfer' set to 'paint' (that seems a bit obscure to me).

Travis, the class setting you mention maybe is only available for 2008?

[Guest]

Brooke,

Can you take a screen shot and post the image here?

[Brooke]

I guess so, Katie, what would you like in that image other than a clearly transparent (sur)face with some color to show it is not just unfilled? Maybe an open Org window showing layers set to 'paint'?