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Quirky · April 13th, 2008

Hi,

I'm going to be drawing up a building with a perforated steel facade, as well as consisting of a number of steel mesh/ grated floors and walkways. I do all my drawing in Autocad and then import the drawing into Vis to render. Is there a tool to set a transparency to a material for the perforations, similar to a bump, or will I have to model each hole?! I tried modelling the steel mesh floor and the file became so big it was unmanageable!

Thanks

April 13th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
Quirky Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newcastle Posts: 3 Name: Ben Taylor	Rendering a perforated steel facade... Hi, I'm going to be drawing up a building with a perforated steel facade, as well as consisting of a number of steel mesh/ grated floors and walkways. I do all my drawing in Autocad and then import the drawing into Vis to render. Is there a tool to set a transparency to a material for the perforations, similar to a bump, or will I have to model each hole?! I tried modelling the steel mesh floor and the file became so big it was unmanageable! Thanks