I use stacked viewports and transparent (X-ray) styles to produce floor plans of cabinet layouts where I can, for instance, see through the countertops to the lower cabinets beneath.(I learned this technique from Matt Donley of MasterSketchup). It’s worked since at least the 2014 version, but no lo…

And here is the same thing, version 2016, showing the desired effect. Layered Plan Sample 2016.layout (174.7 KB) I produced this file by saving the 2017 Sketchup model to 2016 format, and then recreating the layout in Layout 2016. Interestingly, if I open this 2016 file in 2017, the countertop sh…

Yep. I’m seeing the same thing. I was experimenting with making the countertop material translucent instead of using X-ray but there’s no change. I’d say you found a bug.

I feel simultaneously lucky and disappointed. It’s like finding a four-leafed poison ivy. :slight_smile: Thanks for the confirmation, Dave. Should I report this somewhere officially?

[image] des: I feel simultaneously lucky and disappointed. It’s like finding a four-leafed poison ivy. I get that! I edited the top of the post and added the word “bug”. I expect we’ll see someone from the team chime in.

Thanks. For the time being, I guess my choices are to either revert to 2016 (but I sure do appreciate the improved Layout tables!) or to render the countertops in a wireframe style, which is not nearly as easy to read, but at least gives me all the lines I need for dimensioning.

Hi all I have been able to track down the issue. This is actually a known rendering issue within SketchUp that is showing up in LayOut. Exporting the same image out of SketchUp to a 2d graphic with a transparent background the transparency will not be present. The only work around would be to assig…

Thanks for your attention to the matter, Trent! That does work for the render, but it does have one drawback: I can see the base cabinets through the 50% transparent countertop, but I can’t snap dimensions to them. Which is true of the stacked system as well, but I can turn the countertops off to d…

@trent , thanks for the update. I got your other message, too. :wink: @des , since this is a bug that is being worked on, I would look forward to a fix one of these days. In the mean time, how about a modification to your workflow? In SU, create a scene with just the cabinets (like in your example) a…

Yeah, that occurred to me to, after posting. As did another drawback: since I need the countertops to appear solid in elevations and perspectives (glass tops have still not caught on around these parts), I will need two copies of each one (solid and translucent), to be switched on and off in the var…

Transparent style views rendering opaque in Layout 2017

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trent December 8, 2016, 6:25pm 10

Thanks guys for your comments and models. I am looking into this right now.

Trent

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Transparent style views rendering opaque in Layout 2017

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