Making a single object with default color transparent

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@lt72884

now wait a minute. i have always been taught to paint INSIDE the group or component and not on the outside because it will cause issues further down the road… haha

Not necessarily problems down the road. Applying a material to the outside of a component or the faces inside the same component do very different things. There is an appropriate use case for each.

No Texture Option On Certain Faces

Happy to answer any questions, but reply to the thread with a new post instead of editing an older post, or I might not see the new question. It might be useful for you to explore leveraging the properties of groups and components in relation to materials. In short, a material applied to a surface on the inside of a component will override any color applied to the outside. So if you make a fresh component with the default material (or lack of material) and apply the paint bucket to the compon…