topic Re: Canvas shows through all bodies & components in Fusion Support Forum

Canvas shows through all bodies & components

neil.hollingworth — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:22:09 GMT

I have a product drawing with a logo image pasted onto a canvas.

However, the canvas shows through all other components, as though they are not solid, even though I have tried forcing them to 100% transparency. Can't find a setting and can't find a solution here. I want to make an animation, thought it would be fine in there, but it still shows through all components. Surely a setting I have missed somewhere?

Any help is apreciated! Thanks.

Re: Canvas shows through all bodies & components

jeff_strater — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:07:58 GMT

this is how Canvas works - it always shows through. You probably should use Decal, which does not show through:

Canvas:

Decal:

model is attached, FYI

Re: Canvas shows through all bodies

neil.hollingworth — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:25:23 GMT

Ah, great, i didn't know that, I will give it a try, thanks very much for
your prompt response!

Re: Canvas shows through all bodies & components

graham.wideman — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:42:34 GMT

Canvas does not always show through. It has a property "Display Through" which enables this show-through behavior, and seems to default to ON. However, it's difficult to discover because (a) most people would assume that showing through is a property of the objects in front being transparent, rather than a background object "shining through", and (b) the edit feature dialog for Canvas is too narrow and not resizeable so labels for properties are truncated:

But that said... Decal seems like something good to know about!

Re: Canvas shows through all bodies & components

neil.hollingworth — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:57:46 GMT

Thanks, Graham, always good to find these little hidden gems.

Neil

Re: Canvas shows through all bodies & components

j-masterson — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:31:08 GMT

Is there any way to toggle the "Display Through" canvas property on a 3D PCB? It currently states that the top and bottom silkscreen canvases are Unselectable.