{"id":25500,"date":"2019-12-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2020-01-20T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:16:41","slug":"solidworks-tech-tips-adjusting-the-opacity-of-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2019\/12\/solidworks-tech-tips-adjusting-the-opacity-of-geometry.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip &#8211; Adjusting the Opacity of Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-25496\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-615x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-615x364.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-1536x910.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text-728x431.jpg 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/4\/adjusting20the20opacity20-20tech20blog20cover20-20no20text.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Visualize, any geometry (part, group model) can be fully opaque or fully transparent making, it easy to show the internals of your model. This helpful setting is called the Opacity slider, found in the Models Tab of the Palette. In Visualize Professional, opacity can be animated to smoothly fade away any model, part, or group. For this week\u2019s Visualize Quick Tip, let\u2019s see how to adjust the Opacity slider and how it can be used to create a killer animation.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7v4A3Kt-iZE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><center><\/center>Check out this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNIakhZ87GzttyJbNDkt-_mZ\"> YouTube playlist<\/a> more helpful Visualize videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.solidworks.com\/community\/visualize\/overview\">USE THE VISUALIZE FORUM<\/a> to connect with the global Visualize Community for self-help support with common questions. Don\u2019t forget to share your Visualize images and animations on this Forum thread!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to use the Opacity slider to fade parts to see inner details.<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2019\/12\/solidworks-tech-tips-adjusting-the-opacity-of-geometry.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":25497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2142,1577,35],"tags":[1082,1041],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks-2018","category-solidworks-visualize","category-tips-tricks","tag-solidworks-visualize","tag-visualize"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}