Managing the Display of Plates

You can manage the transparency or visibility of Plates.

Transparency is a graphic property, ranging from 0 (the object is opaque) to 255 (the object is transparent). By default

  • Plates are visible.
  • Their transparency is 95.
  • Their edges have the color defined in the Preferences.

Making Plates transparent helps you design the Mold Base or analyze its inwards. Making them opaque or hiding them helps you generate machining features, control created impacts, or create realistic pictures of the Mold Base.

Notes: Following commands only affect the graphic properties of the Plates.
  • Clamping Plate
  • Upper Bar
  • Cavity Plate
  • Cavity Support Plate
  • Stripper Plate
  • Core Plate
  • Core Support Plate
  • Riser Bar
  • Setting Plate
  • Ejector Plate A
  • Ejector Plate B
  • User Plate
  • Objects of the above type created by the user.

Objects of the Insert, Cavity Insert, Core Insert types are not taken into account.

  1. In the Preferences, specify at which level Graphic Properties are applied.
  2. Go to the View section of the action bar.
  3. Select the required command:
    • Transparent Plates : all the Plates under the active product are made transparent.
    • Opaque Plates : all the Plates under the active product are made opaque.
    • Hide Plates : all the Plates under the active product are hidden.
    • Show Plates : all the Plates under the active product are shown.

    Recommendation: For better performances, make all features and faces of plates opaque, then change transparency on product level only (Select Apply Plates transparency of Product only).