I am working my way through the beginner course on SketchUp Campus. In the Selections segment the teacher said to activate xray mode and clicked on an icon on the right hand side of the top tool tray. However that icon does not appear for me (SketchUp Pro 2020). How do I get xray mode to appear? Thanks, Ken
Look in View>Face Style, or activate the Styles toolbar under View>Toolbars, or edit the style in the Styles panel.
View menu
Styles toolbar
Styles Edit panel
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If you find yourself liking X-Ray you can also set up a shortcut to it, by going to Preferences > Shortcuts, searching for X-Ray and add e.g. “X” to it.
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Thank you! Very helpful.
One thing to think about is that ‘X’ is used when making arrays. You could use X for X-ray, but then when making an array (with the Move tool or Rotate tool) you would want to type 5x instead of x5.
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or 5* and *5
This is what I love about SketchUp and this Forum in particular, because every now and then you pick up a tiny snippet of information that can save you a ton of work.
I literally alternate all the time between having X-ray mode switched on and off and it never occurred to me I could assign a shortcut to it. I cannot imagine how many times I have taken that little mouse pointer up to the menu bar and clicked the X-ray option only to click it again just a few seconds later.
I’ve just finished my first drawing set where I hit X instead of using the mouse, and each time I thought to myself I must say thank you, so: @eneroth3 THANK YOU 