Xray ruby component?
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Does exist a ruby for give to component or a selection the propriety "Xray"?
Of course without change the normal aspect of the rest of the scene
Thx by advance
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I'm not sure if a script is out there, but I've done it for myself. The net results is that it works from Ruby, but your Materials count will inflate, because now you have copies of materials that have an opacity to them.
Which, may or may not be a problem for your model.
Todd
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Seems a normal result because you have 2 views possible of a same texture
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I quickly built a script to toggle Xray on a part of the model and posted it in the French section of the forum (at http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=6589&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30
As Todd says, it will double the number of materials, as you have to duplicate materials present on original faces with an alpha transparency set to 0.25. So "purge unused" should be done at some point. It may also take some time on large models.
The script works on a selection of groups, components or isolated faces, possibly nested.
It will Xray the selection. Then, if you do not select anything, it will work in Toggle mode (Xray / Normal / Xray / Normal, ...)
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Cool
See remarks on the french Forum part -
Trying this great ruby, i wonder if it possible to do the same thing with the other face styles, and the great one would be to select several items and apply them different styles within the model.
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Wireframe is even simpler, as you just hide / show the faces
The big problem for Xray, is that I don't find any way to create a material from an existing one, or to assign the new one the same texture as the old one, especially with SU v6, as the JPG are now embedded in SKM files. So the macro works without texture at the moment.
Does anyone see a solution?
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