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Chapter 16. Display Modes
The Rendering Styles toolbar controls the appearance of the model in the main navigation window. From
here you can control the lighting effect, the rendering type and enable or disable the different types of
primitives drawn. Linked with the display options (see “ Display Options ” later in this chapter) and file
options (see “ File Options ”, this enables you to fully control the appearance of the NavisWorks main
navigation window.
Rendering Styles
The rendering process interactively draws the scene's items in the main navigation window. You have a
choice of one of four interactive lighting modes (full lights, scene lights, head light, or no lights), four
rendering modes (full render, shaded render, wireframe or hidden line) and you can individually turn each
of the five primitive types (surfaces, lines, points, snap points and text) on and off.
The Rendering Style toolbar looks like this:
To access it, right-click any toolbar (for example, Standard) in the main navigation window, and click
Rendering Style on the shortcut menu.
Lighting
Lights come through from various CAD file formats as scene lights. The intensity of the head light and
scene lights can be set using the File Options under the Tools menu (see “ File Options ” for details on
this).
The spheres below demonstrate the effect the lighting styles have on them. In order from the left, these
are full lights, scene lights, head light and no lights.
No Lights
This option turns off lighting. The models are shaded with flat rendering.
To turn off all lights:
• On the Viewpoint menu, click Lighting > No Lights
or
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