<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dear All</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">New comer on this forum and new user of Therion for 18 months, I'm currently stucked by 2 issues that are certainly obvious for most of you but after lots of trials I dare to ask you!!!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>1- Transparency on colour filled areas:</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Since I have colored some areas and customized some colors as well, I have lost transparency on overlapping cavities. Despite many trials in the layouts no success.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I use in my layout for exemple:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div> #clay-orange</div><div> def a_clay (expr p) =</div><div> T:=identity;</div><div> thfill p withcolor (0.96, 0.82, 0.55);</div><div> enddef;</div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Result it looks better but it is far more difficult to understand some overlapping areas, see hereunder.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><img title="Image en ligne" alt="Image en ligne" src="cid:3668882a-593f-6019-d80a-5a514040d8a9@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 411px; width: 100%;" data-id="<3668882a-593f-6019-d80a-5a514040d8a9@yahoo.com>"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I guess if I define a special pattern including 50% of colour and 50% of non-colored pixel it could work but I'm not skilled enough to play with metapost.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Any ideas to have the transparency back?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>2. Connexions lines for offseted scraps:</b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My project covers a 4 kms cave that I have splitted into 4 sub-projects (called networks), I work in each network and gather them to get final export, usually I use connexion point in the scrap.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- Network 1 is above Network 2, therefore in the final presentation I offset Network 2 </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">- Network 2 includes itself offseted areas which appear well when I work on export of Network 2 only.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When I compile the global project all connexion's doted lines inside network 2 appears then linked to the shadow of the network 2 offseted from the Network 1 instead of staying linked to the Network 2 representation, result is hawfull with dotted lines crossing every where and ending in the shadow area.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Any ideas to maintain local connexion dotted line where they were at the beginning?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks in advance </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">David</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>