drwho495
drwho495
> I personally have mixed feelings on this PR. One one side it is making in context modelling possible. But it does so in a kind of hacky/clunky way with...
I am planning on adding an isolate feature to my fork of freecad, so it can get merged here. I can fill you in on progress as I go.
 here is the progress, i need to do some work on the backend for some failsafe and a tool to fix any "stuck" transparent objects.
So you can use the task panel if you don't select a part, but if you do select a part the task panel will not appear because it is not...
> I mean, are the parts selectable when the opacity is not 100%? Yes, but I believe that there is no way to make them passthrough in that way
> Then I think that it would be best for the first implementation to avoid supporting transparency. The transparent unselectable parts are useful for more, like contextual editing of parts....
> I liked the transparency slider. If you want visible but not transparent you set it to 100. If you want hidden you set it to 0. And its more...
> > Last, the GUI. I propose a very small window, always on top, that cannot be closed, similarly to Solidworks. It would be in one corner of the 3D...
We could have a radio for a "transparent mode" and have the slider become unusable. But I think the more minimalist idea of the slider makes sense because it combines...
I'm going to get my isolate tool working, then I can PR it into main. I'll link videos of it working when I'm done.