Feature #5780 - X-ray draw style

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Feature #5780 - X-ray draw style

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Hello,

Actually its a question to the developers: an x-ray draw style /similar to eg. Sketchup/ would be VERY nice and helpful.
OpenGL shaded model + wired edges - slight hidden, maybe eg dotted lines...?

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Re: X-ray draw style

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zbigg wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 10:51 am Actually its a question to the developers: an x-ray draw style /similar to eg. Sketchup/ would be VERY nice and helpful.
OpenGL shaded model + wired edges - slight hidden, maybe eg dotted lines...?
I don't know Sketchup; is the x-ray style something like the wireframe draw style in FreeCAD?
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Re: X-ray draw style

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Example from SKP attached
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Re: X-ray draw style

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zbigg wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:44 am Example from SKP attached
Select your object(s) and in the View Tab change the transparency?
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Re: X-ray draw style

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Thats fine but thats on an object level.
I meant it as a view style, once for all. On/off.
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Re: X-ray draw style

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zbigg wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:35 pm Thats fine but thats on an object level.
I meant it as a view style, once for all. On/off.
+1

Like the button „wired style“ and „shaded“ ...

At object-level it would be helpfull to give some objects the attribute „don‘t be transparent“
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Re: X-ray draw style

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PTC Creo has such a view mode called "verdeckte kanten" translated edges behind.
That means that edges in front are black and edges behind are different for example grey or dotted.
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Re: X-ray draw style

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freecad-heini-1 wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 7:14 am PTC Creo has such a view mode called "verdeckte kanten" translated edges behind.
That means that edges in front are black and edges behind are different for example grey or dotted.
the question is: does open inventor support such a method to detect overlapped areas. In this case we ca calculate such an image.
My idea is to run over all points of the images and detect, whether there are more than one elements behind the ray. Then we can change the color of the pixel.
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Re: X-ray draw style

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Whatever idea is I would say its REALLY usefull while working on more complicated solids.
Moreover: SKP provides snap to the points on 'invisible' surfaces in such mode.
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Re: X-ray draw style

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Hi,

Totally second this ! It would be a great UI addition.
It's true you can select all objects and set their transparency to 70% and obtain a similar result, but doing so, you break all your transparent objects view settings.

Deserves a feature request
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