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I WANT TO ADD A SHADED REGION TO A BUILDINGS FOOTPRINT IN A SITE PLAN. SOLID FILLS HOWEVER WON'T ALLOW ME TO MAKE A SEMI TRANSPARENT FILL. SEE ATTACHED IMAGES. I DON'T WANT TO USE A TRANSPARENT LINE FILL PATTERN BECAUSE THE LINES MAKE THE DRAWING LOOK TO CLUTTERED. I KNOW THIS CAN BE DONE IN AN AREA PLAN, BUT THIS IS A SITE PLAN. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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In the properties box of the filled region there is a background setting. You can set it to transparent.
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THIS DOES NOT WORK BECAUSE WHEN YOU SET IT TO A SOLID FILL, IT WILL GREY OUT THE TRANSPARENCY BOX. EVEN THOUGH IT MAY SAY TRANSPARENT AND IS GREYED OUT, IT WILL NOT PRINT TRANSPARENT. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS?
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It's surely too late to help the original poster, but in searching for the forums with the same question, I was also unable to find an answer, so I'm posting what I've found. In Revit 9.1 anyway, it is not possible to create a solid fill that is translucent/transparent. This seemingly basic functionality simply does not exist. A user might want to do this to mask of existing construction, or for a dozen different reasons. While existing construction can and should be built with phasing controls to distinguish new from old, a large filled region can really (and easily) make a drawing clear. The best workaround I found was to create a drafting pattern of very dense dots, and use that pat for the filled region. If you zoom in close enough you'll see the dots, but plotted, or zoomed out on a PDF, in looks like translucent gray.
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Try playing with the relative position settings next to the edit button of your fill, i.e. send forward, send backword, bring to front, etc
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Thanks for the dots idea, I will try that out. I called vendors and they had no solution. I was thinking make a modeled object and add a paint to it, that can be semi transparent, but that is alot of drama when printing because I think you would have to do raster processing
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THe solution to this is to place two views on the sheet in a specific order. First place all the shaded regions you want - nothing else in this view except shaded regions. Next, place the linework on top of this. Any shaded regions in this plan must be made transparent to see the shaded portion behind. We use a similar method to show bearing, shear and non-bearing walls on our foundation plans without losing the stem/foundation wall hatch patterns.
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