I want to include internal geometry in some of my LO Views. The Views are associated with Scenes in the SU model. The Scenes include a Style with Back Edges displayed. I want my LO Views in Hybrid mode, but in Hybrid mode, no internal geometry is displayed. I thought I remembered Hybrid LO Views di…

[image] RobM: I thought I remembered Hybrid LO Views displaying Back Edges in previous versions, I think you have faulty memory. Back Edges haven’t ever been displayed in Hybrid rendering in LayOut. If you are set on having back edges shown and have the rest of the edges displayed as vector …

[image] DaveR: I think you have faulty memory. Back Edges haven’t ever been displayed in Hybrid rendering in LayOut. I definitely have faulty memory. Thanks for clearing up the expected behavior of Hybrid Viewports in LO for me. [image] DaveR: Or better, use two scenes and the dashes fea…

Evidently your method worked but it’s too much work for me. I did this: In SU, assign the group to a layer and set a dashes type in the Layers panel for that layer. Set up the style with dashes disabled. Create a scene (I just updated your Cover Page scene since that’s what you used for the viewp…

Thanks very much, @DaveR . Your thorough explanation cleared up the details of your “two scenes and the dashes feature” approach. One key I was missing was the Styles setting for displaying / not displaying the new Dashed Lines feature in SU. Working through your explanation, I updated my example SU…

Looks pretty good. [image] RobM: I also found out that I can use Vector mode for the stacked LO Views which still display the new Dashed Lines from SU, and they render more quickly than Hybrid Views. Yes. I could have changed it to Vector for my example. Just didn’t do it there because I was…

[image] RobM: I often go back to our previous discussions to refresh my memory on a particular topic. Although my question were different to yours, here’s a topic with another description from Dave with the dashed lines method [image] Dashed line styles not appearing accurate…

Grrrrr… Seems to me these work arounds are too difficult, especially since they cause a proliferation of scenes, styles or other rubbish that just further clutter the file, when it is already daunting enough to create multiple scenes for each part and assembly that need to be rendered in LO. I for…

You’re totally right…it’s another impossible “workaround”. Man, how difficult it is to show backedges in Layout as in Sketchup?

I used to think it would be a nice thing to show back edges but with the changes in SketchUp and LayOut with 2020, I have no need for Back Edges display in LayOut. I find it much better to use dashes and an appropriate style to show hidden details. This also gives better control over the appearance …

610/5000 Hello, If I understand correctly: Create in SU a style with the faces and the color of the faces Make a scene with this style Import the scene into Layout Draw the hidden lines yourself with the layout lines tools to be able to choose the thickness and the color It’s correct ? The pro…

Back Edges Not Visible in LayOut 2019 Hybrid Viewports

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Anssi October 29, 2020, 3:04pm 17

My solution is to put two viewports on top of each other:

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Back Edges Not Visible in LayOut 2019 Hybrid Viewports

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