For Blender 3.6 and 4.0 up use latest DrawXray 3.8

Free version of Draw Xray add-on will help you to draw retopo mesh on top of your high-poly mesh, without problems of build-in blender xray (no proper back-face culling).

How to use:

Install DrawXray like any other Blender add-on – see Blender docs

In 3D View Top Bar > Viewport Overlays press ‘Enable Xray’ – if you go to mesh edit mode, you will se new overlay rendered on top of your mesh

Depth Bias – will determine how much your lowpoly object will be rendered in front of other objects. Set it to 0 to get default blender behavior.

You can change Face Color and Highlights Color;

Xray Overlay can be enabled in following modes: Edit, Sculpt, Paint, Object (default – Edit; shift+Click to select multiple modes).

Video guide from Jayanam – showing the retopo Xray overlay

Paid version comes with snapping features:

better approximation of high-poly mesh, compared to blender build in snapping,

support for retopology with subdivision modifier – DrawXray will negate mesh shrinking effect caused by that modifier,

linking pairs of hipoly and lowpoly meshes, etc

Details about snapping features were shown in video below:

Update 2.3 Blender 2.8 only (23.08.2019)

fixed crashes on scripts reload, and other bugs.

by default per object snapping is now set to ‘Global’ . Saves few clicks: when you enable global snapping, all objects will use now global target. You can still change it per object in: ‘Object Viewport’ panel to: Disabled or Local (different snap target for each object)

Update 2.7 Blender 2.8 and 2.9  (19.11.2020)

addon draws more uniform edges now

more snapping options (based on shrink wrap modifier)

Simplified UI (there is no longer separate panel in object properties)

Update 4.2.2 – for Blender 4.2+ – Released 23.3.2025,

Blender 4.4 compatibility fixes,

Update 4.2.3 – for Blender 4.2+ – Released 15.4.2025,

Hidden faces are no longer drawn by DrawXray overlay,

Xray overlay drawing should be faster up to 3 times,

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