Photo Match - drawing over

SketchUp
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Greetings, first post here. I’m a woodworker, designer and carpenter and use sketchup mainly just for images to show clients ideas for projects.

I am currently trying to provide some clients with some front door options. I have a photo of the front of the house which I have imported and matched in sketchup, but I am having an issue where nothing I draw covers the original door in the picture, it is always at least partially visible.

If I switch the style to an x-ray mode I can see the new door I have drawn in, but the old is visible like a through a translucent.

I am sure I am missing something very basic in a setting or something. Any advice would be great

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Try editing the style in the Styles window

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hi dave,

i did try playing with these settings a little with no real results. do you have any idea what settings would be best to try.

here’s an idea of what my trouble looks like.

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So you didn’t use Match Photo? You just imported the image as an image and are tracing over it?

That photo would be very difficult to set up correctly as a match photo. Can you share the SKP file?

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i did use photo match, this was just an image export of the best i’ve gotten thus far.

what’s the best way to share, just do a export 3d model?

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Do File>Save and upload the SKP file.

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marques door.skp (1.7 MB)

see how this works

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Turn off X-ray and untick the box for Foreground Photo.

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thanks much Dave, thought I had tried that, but must have been in x-ray when I did. i knew it was something rather absent minded on my part.