Change Inactive Parts in Assembly to transparent but NOT the default color

[SM_9610052]

How can I make inactive parts transparent but keep there assigned color?

[tbraxton]

Select the component and then set the component display to transparent in the view tab.

[sacquarone · Accepted solution]

Thanks @tbraxton for your views,

This helps when transparent display style is desired for a given component, This won't help unfortunately however for the way how transparency will be displayed for inactive components (after having activated a given component in assembly mode).

Hello @SM_9610052 

There is unfortunately no way to keep the user defined color (with a tranparency) for inactive components. For the official information, refer to:

• article 21849 to acknowledge how inactive components can be displayed, based on values of transparency and dim_inactive_components config.pro options
• dim_inactive_components entry in Configuration Options for Assembly section of Creo Parametric help center for a good understangin of what the 3 possible values drive in the system

Once above understood, regarding dim_inactive_components:

• Value never is easy to understand, and means: DO NOT apply transparency for inactive components. Never.
• Values shaded_only* and always:
  • produce most of the time the same outcome, except if you have Styles configuration in View Manager (not often used by customers - not so many cases on this even in PTC TS)
  • and even in the scope of Style definition, observe in Help Center documentation that always default color/appearence is applied to inactive components

This expectation is therefore eligible for a new idea, but not for a SPR (because its a current limitation officially documented). Then, what follows is only my views: if a new idea will be reported in this direction, I "think" this could be technically possible in the scope of simple colors applied to components, but probably much harder (and probably even technically not possible) when a texture (coming from a jpg file for instance) is configured instead. Again, just my views here. So feel free to open a new idea to bring this request to the attention of our Product Managers.

Regards,

Serge