Transparency in Drawing

[NachoShaw]

Hi

There has been discussion about greyout out lines in a drawing to highlight a certain part of an assembly. While this is ok, how do you go about this with an assembly in Shaded view? In the model, there is a really nice feature that allows you to make parts / sub assemblies transparent. Can this be used in the drawing too? I need to be able to show the same visual view on a drawing so that i can make the surrounding parts transparent and leave the main part shaded

Cheers

[jhackney1972]

Probably the closest you will come to what you are asking for is the "Transparent" command, per part, in under the shaded view.  Below is the command location.

And the results. The base had been made transparent.  You can see through it and its internal features.

[NachoShaw]

yeah, tried that already. not exactly 'transparent' and nothing really that different to hwat the hidden line style is. im looking to display more like this in a drawing sheet:

cheers

[mpatchus]

One possible way, in the assembly (or make a duplicate assembly), set all of the other part's BOM Structure to REFERENCE.  It should give you a result like shown below.

[t_pcoll · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I used a color override in the model using some transparent color and it produced similar result in drawing shaded view (see attached).

Is this what you're looking for?

Thanks

Ladislav

[NachoShaw]

Hi

I use the BOM reference already and dont really want to get into changing the BOM structure. I have done the transparent View Rep in the past, i hwas just looking / hoping that the new transparency would work in that way. I cant see areal use for it then if its only assembly based as the objective is to get that into a drawing

Thanks