Glass in IDW

[Myoula]

Is there any way to have glass be "transparent" in an idw? We would like to show items that appear behind glass in our drawings. In Autocad, I would simply choose a lighter lineweight for those background items, but in Inventor, the glass is shown opaque. We have tried changing linetypes, using reference linetype, etc. but that involves going through and setting things line by line - quite tedious.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

[Anonymous]

Are the edges of the glass hidden by a frame? If so, you could suppress the glass part in the assembly and save it as a level of detail for the IDW. That way the glass would not even be in the IDW (thus "transparent" so to speak).
Another way might be to show hidden lines in the IDW and then convert the lines behind the glass to another line type. That might take some doing though if there are a lot of lines...
Just some thoughts...

[billco-mfg]

Do you not want to shade the drawing view?

[Anonymous]

Been asking for that for years.

[Anonymous]

This issue is recorded as ID 1045687

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Thank you
Lisa Darrah
Autodesk Inventor Quality Assurance Engineer

"Dave Hoder" wrote in message
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Been asking for that for years.

[autochinnuauto]

We can make the glass part as reference in the asy file

[Myoula]

Found a way:
Chamfer edges of glass using some value that falls under you dimensional tolerances. Remove solid faces execept flats at tops/sides (the "connector" planes between the chamfers)
This will cause edges of un-removed flats to be renderd in idw, leaving all other surfaces (the removed surfaces) "transparent" while hiding edges that fall behind other geometry.
Yes, a bit clunky, but it works!