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Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

DeerSpotter — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:52:52 GMT

All,

Is there a solution to this that doesn't involve me doing this to every single stp file i import?

2018 never had this problem!

What changed? I do not have this luxury to go to each part and copy to construction each time to just get my solid body working. Why is Inventor behaving like this all of a sudden?

Is there any Ilogic code i can use to go through entire assembly and go into each part, copy to construction, create part?

Re: Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

Cadmanto — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:27:39 GMT

See if the attached link helps you.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/importing-stp-file-displays-transparent/td-p/8353532

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2020

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WHolzwarth — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:36:02 GMT

Here's another topic.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/exporting-to-step-yields-transparent-models/m-p/8437282

Search in STEP file for a line containing SURFACE_STYLE_TRANSPARENT(1.) and change it to SURFACE_STYLE_TRANSPARENT(0.)

Re: Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

DeerSpotter — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:33:47 GMT

this did not help me at all, i searched for a solution for a week now. Nothing is helping.

Re: Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

WHolzwarth — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:42:31 GMT

Can you upload a sample?

After a closer look, I noticed that you did some work in Construction Environment.

Initianal stitching is needed there, after that copy object as solid will succeed normally.

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DeerSpotter — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:51:31 GMT

wow, Cant believe i spent all that time when this was the solution.

Re: Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

DeerSpotter — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 20:54:15 GMT

Stiching didnt work at all... tried no luck. Your other solution was great though...perfect.

Re: Inventor 2019 - Importing/Opening STP Files always open as Transparent

johnsonshiue — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:34:43 GMT

Hi! The issue has been fixed as of 2019.4 update. If you have STP files already carrying TRANSPARENT ("1") properties, you will need to manually edit the STP files and change it to TRANSPARENT ("0"). On 2019.4, non-transparent faces should remain non-transparent (and transparent faces remains transparent faces) in STEP export. If you have examples showing otherwise, please let us know asap.

Please make sure 2019.4 update is installed.

Many thanks!