How to make single surface of part transparent so inside of part is visible?

[hhls11]

I'm modeling a temperature gauge and would like to have glass over the gauge so the inside is visible. I can easily do this with an assembly, but I'm wanting to do this with a single part. I tried to derive a new part from the assembly, but the transparent part turns solid so nothing inside is visible. Is it possible to do this?

I've include pictures of what I want and what I end up with. Thanks in advance!

[yannick3]

Hi

The transparent texture cannot be apply to single body in multibody part

This is limitation

[rdyson]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Hi

The transparent texture cannot be apply to single body in multibody part

This is limitation

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I've just tried this twice. The first time it didn't work, the second it did. I don't know what the difference is.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! The transparent color cannot be applied to Features or Faces on a given solid body. It is because exposing the back faces of non-transparent surfaces would make the view very confusing to look at. You can create a separate body just for the glass piece and make it transparent in the part

Thanks!

[Leanderjk]

You have to create a new seperate body to do this, just like rdyson showed in his picture.

[mpatchus · Accepted solution]

A seperate solid for the glass works fine.

[yannick3]

Hi

 sorry for the bad information

i would it mean that's for feature like Johnson point

[swhite]

Just make sure as you extrude the bodies in a multibody part to select the new body selection button (highlighted).

Then select the solid body in the browser and apply color to it, or in your case glass material.

[dwing]

I cannot seem to get just one extrusion to be transparent in my model.  Can you help?  I would like just the body (extrusion 4) to betransparent.

Thanks,

dwing

[JDMather]

You need to create as multi-body solid as already discussed in this thread.  See response #8.

Your sketches aren't constrained (yet a perfect dimensions if I add them - did you delete them, if so why)?

Workplane1 is not needed.

I recommend you start here http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/SkillsUSA%20University.pdf

[dwing]

Thanks for the quick reply J. D.  

The model I have was originally a Pro/E .step file.  I used Inventor Feature Recognizer to create the .ipt, that is why the sketches are not constrained.

It seems like I would have to re-create the model from scratch in order to 'do it correctly'.  Thanks anyway.

dwing

Product Designer

Young & Franklin, Inc.

Specialty Fluid Controls

www.yf.com

[JDMather]

You have the sketches - so you wouldn't need to completely start from scratch.

Simply change the Extrusions to New Solid.

[dwing]

OK, J. D. thanks again.  What I didn't catch on to is that once the Extrusions are set to be New Solids, you have to edit the Solid's properites, NOT the individual extrusions. (I think.)

So, I set the Extrusion property to "As Body" and the corresponding Solid to the appearance I wanted. (Although it seemed like I had to try a whole bunch of times before it 'magically' worked.  Even then I'm not really sure that what i did.)

Thanks again for your help, and I hope this thread helps others.

dwing.

Product designer

Young&Franklin, Inc,

Specialty Fluid Controls

www.yf.com