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Is there a hotkey to toggle translucency?

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mmauldin

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Jul 16, 2004
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If not, can we get one? I would find this very helpful.

NX6.
 
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Michäël.

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If on a toolbar you go into add remove buttons/customize/keyboard... then select report it will tell you all the hotkeys that are set up. In this dialogue you may create them also. It does tell you if that hotkey is used if I remember right. I made some a long time ago for logfile and post.
 
I'm not sure that this is what you're looking for.

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'.

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Thanks all.

John, that was indeed the answer I was looking for. I guess I will have to wait until we catch up to NX7.
 
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