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Transparency feature - Can’t get transparency feature to work on Viacad 16
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Kkaup  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, July 21, 2026 4:18:13 PM(UTC)
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I’ve just started using version 16 and I can’t get the transparency feature to work like in previous versions. I like to make certain parts transparent when I’m modeling and I also use the bounding box feature a lot and want that to be transparent too but it’s not. Does anyone know what I need to do?
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, July 21, 2026 5:01:39 PM(UTC)
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Hi, just to make sure — and, this is from the perspective of a user of the Windows version of SharkCAD/ViaCAD — you've enabled:

— Transparency, in the Inspector, and

— Opacity, in the Shade Options?

Not that you missed both those.
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MPSchmied on 7/22/2026(UTC)
Kkaup  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, July 22, 2026 2:54:46 AM(UTC)
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I will have to check if I enabled opacity in the shade options tomorrow. I didn’t realize you needed to do that. Thank you for the suggestion.
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ZeroLengthCurve on 7/22/2026(UTC)
Kkaup  
#4 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2026 9:06:23 AM(UTC)
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That was it! Thanks again
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ZeroLengthCurve  
#5 Posted : Thursday, July 23, 2026 2:48:37 PM(UTC)
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Glad to be of help.
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