Note: If you need to apply transparency to an individual model element face, see Overriding Visibility and Graphic Display of Individual Elements.
- Open the view in which you want to apply transparency to model category faces.
- Click Manage tab
Graphics panel
(Visibility/Graphics), or right-click an element in the drawing area, and click Override Graphics in ViewBy Category. - In the Visibility/Graphics dialog, click the Model Categories tab.
- Highlight a category row or rows.
- In the Transparent column, select the check box.
- Click Apply to view your changes, and click OK to exit the Visibility/Graphics dialog.
When elements are transparent, only edges and fill patterns (including solid fills) are drawn on element faces. The faces between pattern lines are not drawn. In Hidden Line view and Shaded view, parts of edges are hidden. An edge can be hidden by the face of any non-transparent element, and by a face of its own element (even when it is marked transparent). Edges are not hidden by other transparent elements.