Transparent surrogate is only transparent for flow item but not for the car.

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Mike asked Mar 24, '23 Mike commented Mar 24, '23

Transparent surrogate is only transparent for flow item but not for the car.

Transparent surrogate is only transparent for flow item but not for the car. How can I make the transparent surrogate cover allow to see through the car not only the flow item?

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FlexSim 23.0.3

surrogate transparency

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 24, 2023 at 08:05 AM

@Mike, please attach a model, which contains your car.

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-24T11:18:48Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Mar 24, '23 Mike commented Mar 24, '23

Object transparency depends on the order in which objects are drawn. Only objects that are drawn after the transparent object will be visible through it. The draw order in turn is determined by the position in the tree. If you put the transparent object at the top of the surrogates subnodes, the other objects will be visible through it.

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Mike commented · Mar 24, 2023 at 02:34 PM

awesome! Thanks a lot.

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Answer 2 · 2023-03-24T08:08:18Z

Joerg Vogel answered Mar 24, '23 Mike commented Mar 24, '23

The translucent feature belongs to any object. The car property must get activated this feature, too.

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Mike commented · Mar 24, 2023 at 08:36 AM

Dear Joerg,

Thanks a lot for your answer.

I am not sure whether I correctly phrased my question.

I want to see the car through the transparent surrogate.

Although surrogate is transparent, I cann't see the car through the surrogate.

So that means that surrogate is not really transparent.

Regards,

Mike.

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