Turn on the translucency zone effect by toggling-on "translucency" in the Show Effects region of the Plot sidebar. When a zone is translucent, you may view objects inside or behind the zone. You can control the translucency of a zone using the Surface Translucency attribute in the Effects page of the Zone Style dialog. The level of translucency may be set to a value between 1 (nearly solid) and 99 (nearly invisible). There are nine pre-set percentages ranging from 10 to 90. You may also use the "Enter" option to define a percentage of your own. An example of a translucent plot is shown in Figure 13-1.
Figure 13-1. An example of a plot using translucency.
All surfaces in 3D Cartesian plots may be made translucent. A different translucency may be assigned to individual zones, and may also be assigned to derived objects such as slices, streamtrace ribbons or rods, and iso-surfaces. Use the Effects page of the Zone Style dialog to change translucency settings for zones.
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The Translucency toggle-switch on the Plot sidebar applies only to zones, not to slices, streamtraces, or iso-surfaces. Translucency for those objects is controlled through their respective dialogs.|
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Translucency will only appear on your screen or in exported bitmap images. Translucent objects appear opaque in printouts and in exported vector images. See