Learn/Drafting/Solid Modeling Tools
View HUD
Updated v2.5.7At a glance
- Bottom-center bar for how the scene renders — no menu hunting
- Shading: solid or clean wireframe
- Edges: visible-only, X-ray (show hidden edges), or off
- X-ray solids (Light/Medium/Heavy) to work against hidden geometry
- Scene helpers: toggle grid, ground, and origin axes
- Isolate a body — press I over a part, or right-click it; exit restores your view
- Quick-measure readout appears here when geometry is selected — see 3D Measure & Dimensions
The View HUD is a slim bar at the bottom-center of the 3D view that puts the common "how do I see this part" controls one click away. It only changes how the scene is drawn — it never touches your model or the saved file — and it slides out of the way of the status and error indicators automatically.
When geometry is selected, the bar also hosts the quick-measure readout — lengths, areas, angles, and distances for whatever you've clicked. See 3D Measure & Dimensions.
Controls
- Shading — flip the whole model between solid and a clean wireframe to see through it while you work.
- Edges — show only the edges you can see (the normal look), reveal the hidden edges through the part (X-ray), or turn edges off for a clean render.
- X-ray — make solids see-through at Light, Medium, or Heavy so you can line things up against geometry tucked behind a face.
- Scene — toggle the ground grid, the ground plane, and the origin axes independently; declutter for a screenshot or turn them back on to orient yourself.
Your shading, edge, scene, and X-ray choices are remembered between parts and sessions.
Isolate
Isolate focuses on one body occurrence — everything else disappears — and puts the view back exactly the way it was when you exit. Linked copies are kept distinct, so isolating one copy does not reveal another copy that references the same source body.
- Click Isolate on the bar and then click the body you want, right-click a body → Isolate body, or press I while hovering a part to isolate it instantly.
- While isolated you can still turn other things back on; exiting always restores your original view.
- Press I again (or use the bar / right-click) to exit. The I shortcut is rebindable in Settings → Hotkeys.