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I’m new to Blender (using 4.4) and following the Blender Guru donut tutorial.

After duplicating the donut mesh to make the icing, I deleted the bottom half in Edit Mode and added a Solidify Modifier (offset set to 1, thickness 0.025m).

The issue: in Edit Mode, some edges disappear when zoomed in, even though vertices are still visible. This makes editing very hard. When I zoom out, edges show up again faintly. If I hide the donut object I can see all the edges fine but when both the icing layer and donut are visible some edges are not visible when zoomed in close.

What I’ve tried:

  • Disabled Display Modifier in Edit Mode
  • Verified I’m in Edge Select Mode
  • Toggled Overlays and Backface Culling
  • Tried Alt + H to unhide
  • Adjusted Clip Start/Clip End
  • Switched shading modes

Still no luck. The edges seem to vanish up close. Is this a Solidify or viewport bug or a setting I’m missing?

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  • $\begingroup$ Have you tried the x-ray option? Top left of the viewport, the square icon above the option dropdown $\endgroup$ Commented May 28 at 15:04

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The edges are hidden by the surface of the donut, what you can do is activate the Retopology option in the Mesh Edit Mode Overlays panel, it will allow you to see the edge through the surface of the donut, increase the value if necessary:

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Without and with:

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You could also activate the transparency but all the objects will be transparent (shortcut AltZ):

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  • $\begingroup$ Hey thank you so much! That work perfectly! I was on chat gpt for the longest time trying to figure this out but your solution work perfectly. I guess some things Chatgpt can't figure out haha. Thanks for the speedy reply and solution @moonboots $\endgroup$ Commented May 29 at 21:41
  • $\begingroup$ Chat GPT is not always reliable ;) $\endgroup$ Commented May 29 at 22:59
  • $\begingroup$ very true, thanks again $\endgroup$ Commented May 30 at 13:55

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