When I'm modeling off of blueprints, I'm constantly finding myself changing the material's opacity back and forth so I can see the blueprints when modeling (?%) and so I can see the form better (at 100%). Wireframe mode would be useful but the blueprints disappear when in this. Does anyone know a quick way to switch the…
alt-x would switch the entire scene. no? one thing I've seen done is setting your material to animate. Frame 0 is 100% opacity, and frame 1 is ?% opacity. then you can just slide your frame over one for the transparent, and back for full. I believe you can hot key forward and back one frame... I think...
Put your Ref Planes in a new Layer and set te Layer's Shading Mode to Shaded...that way the Blueprints will stay shaded, even when you switch the Viewport to Wireframe.