Picture to be traced is invisible

[Didime]

Hello all,

I’m trying to trace a 2D picture of a car drawing, turning it into a 3D model.
Following the tecnique that I saw on a youtube vid (I don’t know if I’m allowed to post the vid), I set up components to trace the original drawing over the 3 axis. So I have 3 instances of each component, an instance for each of the 2D views.

All is smooth in the vid. He set the view to x-ray and monochrome and is able to edit a component while at the same time keeping the drawing outside of the component visible. He’s using SU2018.

I’m trying with SU2021 and I set view on x-ray and monochrome as per the youtube vid. When I edit a component, the picture of the drawing become completely invisible (see attached screenshots). Incidentally, the picture of the drawing is contained in a component itself. But as you can see in the screenshots down here, even when I explode the picture component, the drawing is still totally invisible.

Can you please point me at what I’m doing wrong?

[DaveR]

It would be easier to tell if you upload the .skp file but I’m going to guess that you imported the image and then exploded it. That makes the image a texture. Instead, don’t explode the imported image.

Here I’ve imported an image and left it as such. Style is set to Hidden Line and X-ray turned on. The image is still visible.

[Didime]

Thanks @DaveR, that definitely did the trick!