I do mostly Joinery/woodwork drawings. I am looking for a style that will show the texture/material and the hidden lines behind to show material thickness etc. Does anyone know of a downloadable style that can do this? Without having to re-draw the carcass in Layout obviously.
When I need to do this I used stacked viewports of the same scene but with differetn styles. For example here I’ve set one viewport to wireframe and I gave the rail’s tag a dashed style. The other viewport is set to Hidden Line and both a Vector rendered.
It’s important when stacking viewports to put each viewport in the stack on its own layer in LO so you can access the viewport underneath if needed. Actually, in the above there are two viewports on each layer and they are cropped with a breakline between them.
And here I have the bottom viewport with the style set to Shaded with Texture and the top one showing only the side apron of the table (all other tags are turned off. The top viewport uses Hidden Line style instead of Wireframe because there’s no hidden features like the groove and mortise in the above screenshot.
The stacked viewports make it easy to show only the hidden features I want to show to reduce clutter in the illustration. And there’s a lot of control over how dashed lines appear for different entities. Using Back Edges and a single viewport would look like this in my model of the tabler.
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