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Canvas shows through all bodies & components

neil.hollingworth
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Canvas shows through all bodies & components

neil.hollingworth
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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.

 

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

 

Canvas:

Screen Shot 2021-09-14 at 8.05.42 PM.png

 

Decal:

Screen Shot 2021-09-14 at 8.05.52 PM.png

 

model is attached, FYI

 


Jeff Strater
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neil.hollingworth
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Ah, great, i didn't know that, I will give it a try, thanks very much for
your prompt response!
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graham.wideman
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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:

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

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

 

Neil

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