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  • Published 21 Sep 2019

Background images always visible

When modeling e.g. cars, we use blueprints. Top, side, front views etc ... All the blueprints have own Collection. We have a modeled part of the car body and we want to start modeling e.g. doors. We switch to the right ortho view, select plane from which we start modeling the door and use hide unselected or isolate selected to hide other geometry. Why in version 2.80 blueprints in ortho views also disappear? Why can't it be like in 2.79 that background images are always visible? Now you must select the object (plane in our example), enable selection for Collection with blueprints (coz you disable it so you dont want to select blueprints empty object in ortho views every time you box selec some geo) and the empty with the blueprint and then use isolate selected. For those who modeling in full screen mode without outliner is very annoying and is terrible workflow!

I want "Background images always visible in ortho views" option. Whos with me?

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radi0n
21 Sep 2019

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dillenbata

I think this could be fixed easy with a boolean to exclude an image empty from being hidden. So it wouldn't matter if it's part of a collection or not. Or you could have an excluded collection that can't be hidden or isolated.