Visual Styles

Visual Styles provides a one-stop shop for tweaking the display of a model's surfaces, edges, and its environment. Visual Styles also provides options for toggling helpful diagnostic options.

Surfaces

• Shadows: Display shadows based on sketch location and selected time of day.

• Ambient Shadows: Display soft shadows for an added touch of realism.

• Monotone Surfaces: Display all surfaces with a white material, except transparent surfaces which become grey. Great for shadow studies.

Edges

• Edges: Display edges on the model.

• Contrast: Adjust the relative visibility of edges against model surfaces.

• Thick Edges: Display thickened edges.

• Sketchy Edges: Display edges with a sketch-like effect.

• Hidden Edges: Display edges behind surfaces for a wireframe effect.

• Extended Edges: Draw a slight extension to edges for a sketch-like effect.

• Silhouettes: Display thicker lines around perimeters of objects to emphasize form.

• Silhouette Contrast: Adjust the relative visibility of silhouette edges against model surfaces.

Environment

• Grid: Display the grid on the ground.

• Ground Plane: Display the colored opaque effect on the ground.

• Axes: Display the XYZ axes indicators at the origin.

• North Arrow: Display a helpful north arrow indicator in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

• Levels: Display levels on objects that have Levels enabled in the Properties palette.

Diagnostics

• Identify Watertight Issues: Highlight non-manifold edges in a red color to help clean up models for sending to other applications, and for identifying potential model fidelity issues.

• Identify Back Faces: Highlight faces that are reversed to help clean up models for sending to other applications, and for identifying potential model fidelity issues.

• Show Group Bounding Boxes: Draw bounding boxes for all Groups and nested Groups in the sketch.

• Show Default Color on back Faces: Checking this overrides any faces that may have a back face material with the default FormIt color.