Hi there,
Does anyone know why I’m unable to save a scene with the X-ray view applied?
This used to work fine in my previous kitchen design projects. My process is:
go to the front view of the kitchen
select View → Face Style → X-ray
create a new scene
However, when I leave that scene and come back to it, the X-ray style is gone and the scene appears in the normal view.
Am I missing a setting somewhere? Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
Xray is attached to the style.
You need to update the style or create a new one and then update the scene.
Your post implies that you’ve either shut off the style warning or you are ignoring it. When you make any change to the style and haven’t updated it, creating or updating a scene should bring up the Style Warning panel.
Don’t just use Save as a new style every time the warning pops up because you can wind up with a bunch of duplicate styles which can just cause confusion and file bloat. Remember that updating the selected style will apply the style changes to any existing scenes that use the same style.
Rarely is selecting Do nothing … a good idea.
If you aren’t seeing this warning you should turn it on by clicking on Reset All Warning Messages in Preferences>General.
Understood… for some reason I wasn’t seeing the warning before, but once I turned it on and tried again, everything worked properly. Thank you!
I’m still a bit confused about the difference between “Save as a New Style” and “Update the Selected Style.” Does that affect all existing scenes in the model, or only the current/new one?
For different Layout presentations I need different scene styles — for example, some scenes in Ambient Occlusion, others as technical drawings, X-ray views, etc. — so I’m trying to better understand how styles are managed.
Save as a new style creates another style. That style will only be applied to the scene you are just creating and it will be available to use in other scenes but it won’t affect the style(s) used in existing scenes. Update the Selected Style will do as it says. That means that whatever changes you made to the style will appear in existing scenes using that style. So if you turn on Xray, create a new scene and then click on Update Selected Style, other scenes in your model will show as Xray, too. Maybe that’s what you want. Maybe not.
You want to stay on top of the styles so you know which one you are using for given scenes.
FWIW, I generally have one style, sometimes two, but very rarely more in a given SketchUp model. I have a collection of styles that I commonly use in LO projects and I access them per viewport within LayOut. This allows me to get by with fewer scenes to manage in SketchUp. I mainly use scenes for the camera positions.
No, I definitely want certain scenes to be shown in X-ray, as it’s a great way for me to display the interior of the cabinets without having to move or hide the doors. It’s mainly a personal aesthetic preference 
I do have the doors tagged, so I could simply turn them off, but visually I prefer the X-ray look for these types of presentations.
Yes I was hoping I can do that in LO through Stayles in Viewport but dont seem to find the X-ray view
I’m not telling you that you can’t use Xray for some scenes. I only indicated that if you turn on Xray before making or updating a scene and then choose Update Existing Style, you will wind up with Xray for scenes in which you may not want it.
There’s an Xray style in the Default Styles collection. If you’re OK with that one select it.
All good, got it.
Thank you.
Good deal.
I meant to post this earlier but I made my own collection of the styles I use in LO documents so I can access them directly in LayOut. If you want to do this you’ll create a style collection in SketchUp. I named mine 1 Plan Styles so it remains at the top of the list of styles in the dropdown.
Thanks for this discussion nookon and Dave R- very useful for me also
