Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
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If not, can we get one? I would find this very helpful.
NX6.
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Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
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RE: Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
Best regards,
Michäël.
NX4+TC9 / NX6+TC8Unified / NX7.5 native
RE: Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
RE: Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
Prior to NX 7.0 there was NO way to 'toggle' Transluceny ON or OFF, at least not in the sense that it's a display mode like the difference between wireframe and shaded. One kludgy thing that you could do would be to edit everything to be translucent and then under...
Preferences -> Visualization Performance -> General Graphics
...and toggle ON or OFF the 'Disable Translucency' option. Now there's no way to directly 'program', using a hotkey, this option, however you could create a pair of journals, one to toggle it ON and one to toggle it OFF and add these to icons on a toolbar and then assign hotkeys to them.
Note that starting with NX 7.0 we have added something called a 'See-Tru' mode which is very similar to translucency except that you don't have to edit the bodies or components in your model and change their translucency, but rather it just makes everything 'see-thru' in appearance. And since this is an 'toggle' Icon which has already been added to a toolbar so now it's trivial to define your own hotkey to toggle this ON/OFF, which I've done on my system assigning it to 'Alt+T'.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
John, that was indeed the answer I was looking for. I guess I will have to wait until we catch up to NX7.
RE: Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.