Appearance

hansjuerg_jenzer

Hello

Is there a keyboard command in Onshape to set the appearance of a part to transparency 50% and back?
Is there another quick way?

Thank you for your answer(s)
Hansjürg

S1mon

50%? No, but shift-T will make parts temporarily transparent. I would prefer that it wasn't quite so transparent. There's also "translucent" mode under the Camera and Render options menu (the isometric cube menu on the upper right). That makes all parts translucent, which can be useful while trying to work on internal features. By default, there's no keyboard command for that, but you can assign one.

hansjuerg_jenzer

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112524#Comment_112524

Hi Simon

Thanks for your reply.

I have now tried it with a custom FeatureScript (with Youtube, ChatGPT and Preplexity).

I have a code that only gives an error on the last line.

Everything else seems to be OK.

The error message:

mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting {'[', 'box', '::', 'boolean', 'number', 'string', 'array', 'map', 'builtin', 'function', 'undefined', '{', BOOLEAN, NUMBER, ID, STRING}

34:2 Feature Studio 1

Can you help me with this?

Many thanks Hansjürg

Code:
FeatureScript 2559;

import(path : "onshape/std/common.fs", version : "2559.0");
annotation {"Feature Type Name" : "Apearance 50", "Feature Type Description" : "" }

export const myFeature = setPartTransparency function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)

precondition

{
annotation { "Name" : "Auswahl", "Filter" : EntityType.BODY, "MaxNumberOfPicks" : 5 }
definition.selectedEntities is Query;
}

{
setPartTransparency(context, definition.selectedEntities);
}

{
setPartTransparency (context is Context, selectedEntities is Query)
}

{
if (size(evaluateQuery(context, selectedEntities)) == 0)
{ throw regenError("Bitte wählen Sie mindestens ein Bauteil aus.");
} setAppearance(context, {
"entities" : selectedEntities,
"appearance" : {
"opacity" : 0.5
}

})

}

S1mon

FeatureScript is designed to modify a part studio in a controlled way. You can tie keyboard commands to built-in features and commands, but as of yet, you can't do so for custom features. You can use option/alt-c to search for a command and then type some characters to get to a custom feature, but that's not as quick.

What are you trying to accomplish by setting/unsetting the transparency?

eric_pesty

You could use a configuration checkbox to configure the appearance of the part(s). Or use something like the "part color" FS to make it easier to configure than using the configured properties route…