# transparant object
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338 "2019-08-01T10:05:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rahul](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rahul)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/1 "2019-08-01T10:05:19Z")
Dear sir
I am doing DEM simulation in LIGGGHTS and while analyzing the result, I want to make the geometry transparent. But while changing the Opacity less the 1.0 the geometry completely disappears.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/2 "2019-08-01T22:48:24Z")
Welcome to ParaView, @rahul.
Do you get any error or warning messages when you change the opacity to less than 1.0? Does the object appear at some angles but not others if you rotate the camera around?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/3 "2019-08-01T23:42:29Z")
Another thing to try is to find out if it your hardware/OS/etc., rather than your data. Try the following:
- ParaView 5.6.0
- Sources/ Alphabetical/ Wavelet. Apply.
- Change Outline to Surface.
- On Properties tab, try changing Opacity to 0.5.
Does that work?
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### Author:  [@rahul](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rahul)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/4 "2019-08-02T03:55:50Z")
I don’t get any error message when I change the opacity to less than 1.0.
I don’t see any object if I change opacity to less than 1.0, even if I rotate the camera around.
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### Author:  [@rahul](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/rahul)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/5 "2019-08-02T03:56:48Z")
[quote=“wascott, post:3, topic:2338, full:true”]
Another thing to try is to find out if it your hardware/OS/etc., rather than your data. Try the following:
- ParaView 5.6.0
- Sources/ Alphabetical/ Wavelet. Apply.
- Change Outline to Surface.
- On Properties tab, try changing Opacity to 0.5.
Does that work?
This is not working for me.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/transparant-object/2338/6 "2019-08-02T07:05:08Z")
@rahul : Please specify :
- Version of ParaView
- Your OS
- Your GPU
- Your graphic driver