Transparent section fill

[Anonymous]

Anyone know a way to get a cut object to have a transparent (or translucent) fill? I'm trying to get a mesh in a 3d document to show as partly transparent, but it seems to default to white despite my best efforts. I assigned a transparent material to the mesh, and set the fill to Background, with a 0 pen, but no luck. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

You could set the mesh's layer to wireframe.

[Anonymous]

if I do that, the mesh doesn't cut at all, so then my ground line disappears.

[David Maudlin]

nick:

You could change the mesh from Solid Body to Superficies or With Skirt, which just leaves the top plane, but this may create another unwanted result elsewhere.

David

[Laszlo Nagy]

nick wrote:
Anyone know a way to get a cut object to have a transparent (or translucent) fill? I'm trying to get a mesh in a 3d document to show as partly transparent, but it seems to default to white despite my best efforts. I assigned a transparent material to the mesh, and set the fill to Background, with a 0 pen, but no luck. Thanks.

I think the 3D Document Settings simply do not do what you want.
If you set the Cut Fill Background Pen to Transparent then there will be no background fill color. But it does not change how the 3D Document bodies and lines were generated from the 3D Model.

[Brett Brown]

What's the reasoning around not being able to have a transparent cut fill in a composite?