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A half transparent 2D view of walls (while drawing on background image, or generally - Wall pattern in plan) could be useful. So yes, supporting the idea 
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| Posted by UKenGB at Jul 22, 2016, 2:09:46 PM |
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Hiding walls I've imported a background image of the house plan and drawn walls as appropriate. But now I want to add windows and I can't see them in the background image as they're completely obscured by the walls. Doors are not as bad as I can still see the swing of the door, but the actual opening in the wall is again hidden by the wall. How can I see the background image in order to know where to place additional objects. |
| Posted by hansmex at Jul 23, 2016, 5:11:25 AM |
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Re: Hiding walls My solution: CTRL-A, and set all walls to a thickness of 1 cm/inch Place doors and windows Select walls one at a time and give them correct thickness Select door/window and wiggle a bit to snap it into place H ---------------------------------------- Hans new website - under constuction hansdirkse.info |
| Posted by UKenGB at Jul 23, 2016, 8:47:17 AM |
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Re: Hiding walls Currently I just nudge the wall (using the keyboard arrow keys) a remembered number of times and then nudge back into place once I've added the windows. But then they have to be manually moved. Overall, neither solution is ideal. We need a way to temporarily make a wall invisible, yet be able to add the window and have it snap to the invisible wall. |
| Posted by Puybaret at Jul 23, 2016, 11:59:24 AM |
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Re: Hiding walls I thought about this issue recently, and I thought it shouldn't be difficult to make walls half transparent while dragging doors and windows, when there's a background image. What do you think of this idea? ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by UKenGB at Jul 23, 2016, 5:54:08 PM |
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Re: Hiding walls I thought about this issue recently, and I thought it shouldn't be difficult to make walls half transparent while dragging doors and windows, when there's a background image. What do you think of this idea? I think that would be great solution Emmanuel. |
| Posted by Miker777 at Jul 23, 2016, 6:08:11 PM |
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Re: Hiding walls Probably sounds daft, but, if you have a plan as a background, have you tried positioning the doors and windows first? |
| Posted by okh at Jul 23, 2016, 7:55:24 PM |
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Re: Hiding walls ..walls half transparent ... A half transparent 2D view of walls (while drawing on background image, or generally - Wall pattern in plan) could be useful. So yes, supporting the idea . |
| Posted by UKenGB at Jul 23, 2016, 8:39:13 PM |
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Re: Hiding walls Probably sounds daft, but, if you have a plan as a background, have you tried positioning the doors and windows first? But then there's no wall for them to snap-to. |
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