Ok, I've lost my notes and can't remember how to make a piece of glass see thru in an assembly so I can see what's behind in my drawing view. Yes yes, I'm getting old...
TIA
Steve C
Ok, I've lost my notes and can't remember how to make a piece of glass see thru in an assembly so I can see what's behind in my drawing view. Yes yes, I'm getting old...
TIA
Steve C
I'm assuming you don't want it transparent at the part level (in which case I'd go to that part, select the glass body from the bodies folder, and assign to it the glass material). On an assembly level, you could select the body to be made transparent, RMB and click on the down arrow next to Appearances. click on "body" and then under "advanced" in the Illumination tab you should see a "Transparent amount" slider which should be helpful.....
Oh wait, nope. Neither of these seem to affect the "see-throughness" at the drawing sheet level. Huh. I have no idea. Like to know the answer though.
Marshall
So, this is how I did it in another software but it is 2 views over the top of each other. The see thru part is in a display state by itself and then you put 2 vies in and remove the non-see thru part from the drawing view and make the separate display view wireframe.
I'm certain SW should be able to do this and if they can't so be it.
Steve C
Shaded mode is the solution. You can create a display state in the assembly where all the components are the same color as your drawing sheet and ambient light is set to max. Then, set your glass component as transparent. In the drawing view, set it to shaded with edges. The only caveat is that the drawing sheet color is a system setting. As long as everyone is on default colors, this should work, even when printing.
Open the part and select this tab