topic Some components dimmed as if they aren't active in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Some components dimmed as if they aren't active

tinglett — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:07:15 GMT

Hello all,

I'll apologize in advance because this must be a "doh!" moment. I've been creating a model for an actual antique boiler that I own and while editing and rearranging things, I somehow managed to have some of my components dimmed, as if they are non-active, when the entire model should be active.

Here's a window snapshot and note that the top of the boiler is dimmed. This is the "Top Sheet" component. Only the Firebox and Barrel are not dimmed. If I activate the Boiler component, everything (except the Firebox of course) undims "properly." I don't have anything isolated or manually changed for opacity (as far as I know).

Here's the model if anyone cares to peek: https://a360.co/2J1YH3k Just be aware that I'm in the middle of editing. I won't change for a while as it's too late anyway :). I have history rolled back a ways and I know I have errors to fix "in the future," but this was starting to drive me batty so I decided I'd better ask for some help.

Todd

Re: Some components dimmed as if they aren't active

laughingcreek — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 03:19:29 GMT

This looks like a bug to me. I think yo should "file/export" it to preserve init's current state and report it to AD.

Re: Some components dimmed as if they aren't active

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 05:10:44 GMT

@tinglett

No bug.

Change the opacity of the body.

Re: Some components dimmed as if they aren't active

tinglett — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:42:31 GMT

Changing the opacity of the body (not the component) does indeed fix it!

So this leads me to 2 questions:

1. How on earth did I managed to get the model in this state? I'm guessing I ran into a bug and wish I could pinpoint it for the developers :(.

2. Is there an easy way to select bodies for opacity control? Fortunately I have a number of pattern-created parts so I only had to go through a handful, but some had multiple bodies :(. I did try the selection tools to filter for bodies, but I found that the opacity control is missing when multiple bodies are selected.

Anyway, I have fixed my copy of the model but have not yet saved it. I did try to activate specific components and it seems ok now.

I *think* this first occurred when I placed a new joint between the firebox and boiler way back in history.

Todd