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How to adjust the Opacity of your Point Clouds, 3D Models or Sheets Visible in the Sphere XG Viewer
How to adjust the Opacity of your Point Clouds, 3D Models or Sheets Visible in the Sphere XG Viewer

Learn more on how to adjust the transparency of Point Clouds, 3D Models or Sheets in your Sphere XG project to easily compare the data sets.

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Written by Anna-Azize Adami
Updated over 4 months ago

If you have uploaded and aligned one or more sheets, a 3D model and one or more point clouds, you may want to check the alignment again in the 3D overview in the Sphere XG Viewer.

  1. In the Sphere XG Viewer, click icon in the lower left corner to activate the 3D view.

  2. Click icon in the toolbar on the right side.

    Three opacity sliders are displayed. From left to right: sheet, 3D model, point cloud.

    Opacity sliders for comparing your Point Cloud, 3D Model and Sheet data sets in the FARO Sphere XG Viewer

    By default, sheet, 3D model and point cloud are max. opaque.

  3. Move the opacity slider you want down to make this item more transparent until you can see the other items, see also the figure below.

Data overlay with reduced opacity on the Point Cloud to compare with the 3D Model and Sheet in the FARO Sphere XG Viewer



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