topic Re: Opacity control not working in Fusion Support Forum

Opacity control not working

PinnacleMachine — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:15:03 GMT

Since this morning's update Opacity Control doesn't seem to be functioning for me. I have tried creating new bodies and files as well as opened some older files from last week where I know it had worked. Regardless of what it is set to the body appears completely solid.

Re: Opacity control not working

jeff_strater — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:25:56 GMT

it seems to work fine for me. There are some plastic materials, though that do not work with opacity. Are you by chance using one of those?

If you share your model here, we can take a look

Re: Opacity control not working

PinnacleMachine — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:41:06 GMT

I never mess with materials - it's always set to steel satin for all components. It seems the opacity will work for 2-3 seconds; but as soon as I rotate the part or save it, it goes solid again and I can't get it transparent again. There was also a windows update this morning that may be causing the issue as well - I don't have time to screw with this - time is money.

Re: Opacity control not working

john.h — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:51:26 GMT

Same here, a file I was working with last night with opacity control set to 50% now doesn't have the ability to change the opacity of any object that previously had opacity control enabled.

Really highlights an issue with push updates, if this broke something more critical I wouldn't be able to get any work done today...

Re: Opacity control not working

Phil.E — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:57:27 GMT

Hi,

We are aware of an issue and are working to fix it now. It might be related to what you are seeing.

There is one way to find out. Can you please change your preferences to this setting and try your workflow? Let me know what happens. Always happy to dig deeper.

Thanks,

Re: Opacity control not working

john.h — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:12:10 GMT

That fixed it, I didn't think to check there since I had that set to "Better Performance" yesterday...

Thanks!

Re: Opacity control not working

PinnacleMachine — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:16:38 GMT

Fixed it for me as well.

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:44:54 GMT

I have tried everything on this thread but I cannot get opacity control to work on a peek component!

what am I doing wrong?

Re: Opacity control not working

g-andresen — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:52:08 GMT

Hi,

Please share the file.

File > export > save as f3d locally > attach it to the next post.

günther

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:04:22 GMT

There you go!

Re: Opacity control not working

g-andresen — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:37:12 GMT

Hi,

1. I could see that the effect does not occur with a new component in this construction as long as it is active. But this happens when the primary level is activated again.
2. Does the effect also occur in other files?

günther

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:51:46 GMT

I can adjust some brass parts in the assembly but the PEEK parts don't!

Re: Opacity control not working

g-andresen — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:51:09 GMT

Hi,

What about question 2?

günther

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:32:48 GMT

I have just tried on another file that has both PEEK and brass parts, but I cannot get it to work on either of them!!

I must point out I am rather IT illiterate!

Re: Opacity control not working

g-andresen — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:05:12 GMT

Hi,

@Anonymous wrote:
I have just tried on another file that has both PEEK and brass parts, but I cannot get it to work on either of them!!

Does this mean that the effect is not reproducible there?

günther

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:54:04 GMT

maybe I am asking this in the wrong way.

I am working on an assembly that is housed in a PEEK outer/insulator with some parts inside it as well as passages running through it. I am trying to make the PEEK insulator semi-transparent by selecting the component, right clicking and selecting Opacity Control and clicking 30%

When the component is still selected, I can see a slight "ghosting" of the internals but as soon as I click off it reverts to a solid.

Re: Opacity control not working

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:57:05 GMT

For fun, I changed the physical material to brass (not very good for an insulator!) and it works like I thought it should!!

Re: Opacity control not working

g-andresen — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:32:22 GMT

Hi,

I don't want to participate in this thread any further, because I can't see a sufficient development from the previous reactions to my questions.

Günther

Re: Opacity control not working

Phil.E — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:01:20 GMT

For materials with translucency turned on, opacity control does not affect them.

Re: Opacity control not working

PinnacleMachine — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:15:38 GMT

This issue just reappeared for me this morning - I am the original poster. I tried changing Transparency Effect settings from Better Display to Better Performance, which fixed it last time until there was a patch and it had no effect.