Viewport Background Transparency
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I've been having a great time today making nifty double viewports, a vector over a raster, and its been going swimmingly until suddenly my vector viewports are opaque! For the last one I was clicking around, making sure transparency was enabled in the Sketchup style and whatever else I could think of and somehow after all that it turned transparent when I turned it into a vector. But I have no idea what I did and now the next one is just not changing no matter what I do. Does anyone know what this is?
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Take a look at styles manager and check if:
- You have an active ground or sky color. Turn it off by unticking.
- You have an active background image;
- Your fog settings.
Cycle through your scenes to see if any geometry appears in the background. Also take a look at the active layers on your scenes and/or see if you have some geometry in Layer 0 or in another active layer or wether you forgot to group and layer it so it get's hidden.
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Sometimes, LO can glitch on which style it is displaying, regardless of what the scene setting is.
Try selecting the viewport in LO and, in the sketchup model/styles palette, see what it says for the active scene. If it has (modified) after it, try clicking another scene and then click the one that you want. In fact, even if it doesn't say (modified) try clicking another one and then the right one.
Of course, check your style settings as JQL explained above first.
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It turns out that it has to do with geometry on layer 0. I was getting lazy and left a few items there and in fact my linework meant for the vector viewport was also still on layer 0. However, even after tidying up the remedy didn't show in Layout on 'model update' but until I'd restarted Layout.
Thanks for getting me over the hump again, guys.
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