Hello,
Working a lot with hatches and curves, I use the lock or IsolateLock function to organise parts. But all my hatches become opaque and I can no longer work or see the hatches in the background in order to work over them.
Are there any settings I can change to get something more readable?
Something in this direction would be nice instead:
Hi Pipouille -
Could you post a 3dm file that illustrates this issue?
In a quick test, when I create a hatch and lock that, it remains “workable”.
(left: locked; right: unlocked)
-wim
Hi Wim,
Thank you for your message. You can find the file and a system info here.
(I’m using the materials to assign colours to the hatches as there’s no way to have custom colour lists, but you’ll find both. Both are completely greyed out when locked)
Maybe it’s settings in the display mode, but it doesn’t seem to affect the hatches.
LockSystemInfo.txt (4.7 KB)
Lock.3dm (4.0 MB)
Hi Pipouille -
There are two ways to make these locked objects appear as they do when they are not locked. You can either use the default display mode settings and lock the layer that those objects are on, or you can change the [Display_Mode] -> Objects -> Locked Objects -> Locked object usage setting to Use object's display attributes.
-wim
Hi Wim,
I understand that they can appear as they are normally. But this does not allow the user to see the difference between what is locked and what is not. I’d like them to look different when they’re locked. Different, but legible.
This is also a problem with blocks, by the way: everything outside them becomes opaque grey when they’re edited.
It would be nice to be able to work with transparency or colour saturation for locked objects, as mentioned in this post : Lock and Isolate-Lock hatch becomes opaque
I wish display modes could have an influence on hatches too. Display modes can have an influence on points, curves, surfaces, meshes, etc. but not on hatches. I think that deserves a post of its own, don’t you think?
