Thanks, adding the group and group material with a transparency does the trick !

I guess I coudl "spawn" props and rebuild, but basically I just wanted rid of the range hood, theres a few other models I want similar "reductive" measures; just remove parts I dont want that havent been set up as body parts.

Funny thing though that posers group tools allows "additive" processing ie spawning of new props but not "reductive", ie removing parts of a figure.

Still it woudl be excellent if you could create body parts from using the group tool; I guess thats just not an available feature =(