Property.edge_opacity

property Property.edge_opacity: float

Return or set the edge opacity of this property.

Default pyvista.plotting.themes.Theme.edge_opacity.

Edge opacity of the mesh. A single float value that will be applied globally edge opacity of the mesh and uniformly applied everywhere.

Property has range [0.0, 1.0]. A value of 1.0 is totally opaque and 0.0 is completely transparent.

Note

edge_opacity uses SetEdgeOpacity as the underlying method which requires VTK version 9.3 or higher. If SetEdgeOpacity is not available, edge_opacity is set to 1.

Examples

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Get the default edge opacity and visualize it.

>>> import pyvista as pv
>>> prop = pv.Property()
>>> prop.edge_opacity
1.0
>>> prop.show_edges = True
>>> prop.plot()

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

Visualize an edge opacity of 0.75.

>>> prop.edge_opacity = 0.75
>>> prop.plot()

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

Visualize an edge opacity of 0.25.

>>> prop.edge_opacity = 0.25
>>> prop.plot()

Static Scene

Interactive Scene