Transparency Tool?

[BSquared18]

Hello,

Following along with a video tutorial on how to make an airplane model, I imported (as an image) into SketchUp 8 (free version) a .jpg of a three-view drawing of the plane.

In the next step, the narrator suggested that I click on the Transparency tool to make the drawing semi-transparent so that lines traced over the drawing are easier to see.

The icon he clicked on in the video looks like a blue-colored, transparent cube. I've looked at every toolbar option in my SketchUp but cannot find that tool. A search on the Internet didn't turn anything up.

Is that tool available in the free version of SketchUp 8? If so, how do I access it?

Oh, I also tried using the transparency slider in Color Picker, but Color Picker is grayed out. Do I need to somehow alter the .jpg I imported to make the Color Picker work on it?

Thanks,
Bill

[TIG]

Try X-ray Mode ?
OR make a new transparent material, and apply that to the object, if you just want it 'see-through' - snapping etc 'through' faces only works in X-ray...

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[massimo]

Also if you don't see the toolbar go to view-->toolbars and tick "face style".

[BSquared18]

Yes, the X-Ray tool seems to have done the trick.

Thanks for the quick help.

Bill