topic Transparency Issue with HP 3D Print Materials in Fusion Support Forum

Transparency Issue with HP 3D Print Materials

CoastLineModels — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:32:30 GMT

Transparency does not work for components with this Physical material's default appearance, this should be 10% opacity:

Changing to another appearance makes it act properly:

Re: Transparency Issue with HP 3D Print Materials

SallyYang — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 01:33:55 GMT

This HP 3D print material uses some translucency effect, so the opacity setting doesn't work on it.

Please refer to below post for details.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-support/variable-opacity-in-design-workspace-not-working-for-plastics/m-p/9026811#M66046

Re: Transparency Issue with HP 3D Print Materials

alan.jonesXHXUF — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 08:02:57 GMT

Thanks, but that seems really silly as a feature, opacity is not a substitute for translucency, using one should not exclude the other. But at least there's a workaround.