Transparent 3D lathed objects

I am not finding a way to make the original pen created object, that is rotated around 360 degrees, transparent. When the resulting transparent 3D object is rendered, there is an opaque representation of the original profile. You can rotate the object in the scene to put the profile in the back, but it will still interrupt the object's refraction and shadows.

Bevels and inflations are absent as they are set to 0% width/strength. I did though set all five materials to the same 32% opacity as the Extrusion Material as you suggest and it rendered as before. BTW, I am using the "Plastic Acrylic (Blue)" preset in Photoshop CC.
Edit: Pardon my bull-headedness, but I set the front and back Inflations to 0% opacity, as you actually suggested, and the profile disappeared. Thank you!

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Thanks for lending a hand. Mordy's article seems to me to deal mostly with recovering transparency after making an EPS. So I'm not sure what it has to do with flattening within a supposedly original AICS2 document. The article and its comments do mention flattening when printing, as does your post #4, Wade.
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I think you probably discovered the Cover Flow Bug. See this thread and the older one referenced in it as well:
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user1703057 wrote:
I have an EBPP application running on Jboss with SQL Server 2005.
Here are the details:
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I would like to migrate it to Oracle 11g R2. I dont want to touch my application to make it compatible with Oracle. I would like to keep the SQL server drive and queries as it is. As far as i see, I have only one option.
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Sybrand raised a critical issue. Oracle != SQL-Server.
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What about this so-called +"the database is a black box+" approach that allows the database layer to supposedly be swap in and out for different database products - without having to touch the application?
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