Some components suddenly became transparent

[jedweare]

OK, I see several similar posts, but nothing that looks the same, and more importantly, I cannot seem to fix it by anything I've tried.

Three of the top-level components of the design are transparent when the design is activated, but look as expected when individually activated.  The other top-level components are fine.  However, one second level component also exhibits this behavior when its parent is activated.  I cannot see any common characteristic of these components, and nothing I do (e.g., re-applying material or appearances) seems to help.  Is there a way to fix it?

This happened recently.  My guess, but only a guess, is that it is a result of temporarily turning off capture of design history in order to be able to move some components in the hierarchy.  Incidentally, not related to this issue, my sheet metal components were all turned into solid components by this; however, undoing this was not a problem.

Attaching three screen shots, one is the last saved version that worked, the second is the one after that, and the third is the current version.  Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

[Rushikesh.kadam · Accepted solution]

@jedweare by any chance was the opacity control setting changed for the body and components you are noticing the behavior? Can you try once setting the opacity control to 100% for all these bodies and components?

To get to the option right-click on body/component and select opacity control.

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[jedweare]

Thank you, that seems to have been the problem.  A lot of the bodies (a hundred maybe) had a 20% setting when the custom opacity box was opened.  I have no idea how that happened, as I certainly did not individually set those values, at least intentionally.  Changing to 100% (individually for each body) fixed it. 

I would apologize for such a simple mistake, but in my defense I did try opacity changes.  I did not think that it would have to be done separately for every body.  The browser menu has an Opacity Control item for components, which suggests that the opacity of all bodies in the component can be controlled at once.  It does do that, but doesn't seem to override any settings applied at a lower level (subordinate component or body), which would be the more intuitive action, to my mind.  Particularly so, as there seems to be some way in which a seemingly random set of bodies can have their opacity changed in one stroke, through accident or as a side effect.  The history does not seem to capture opacity changes.

[Rushikesh.kadam]

@jedweare Good to hear the solution worked. Completely agree with the idea of having an option to control the opacity of all the bodies, including one present at a lower level, in one go. Created a ticket to support this.

Thank you.