Visualization in BricsCAD Shape

Visual styles panel

Visual styles control the appearance of your model.

The Visual Styles panel can be accessed by clicking the camera icon at the right side of the screen.

The look of the entire model will be changed when selecting another style.

The available visual styles are:

  • Shape
  • X-ray
  • Hidden
  • Realistic
  • Sketchy
  • Maquette

Perspective

You can change the perspective view by moving the Perspective slider.

Note: Moving the perspective slider all the way to the left will turn the perspective off.

Quality

To control the on-screen rendering quality of the model, move the Quality slider.

Sun

To make the shadows of the sun appear, toggle the Sun checkbox.

Hide/Isolate/Show entities

Hide

When model elements block your view, you can hide them easily.

To hide one or more elements:

  • Select the entities you want to hide.
  • Click the Hide Entities icon in the Quad or in the toolbar.

Isolate

The opposite of hiding an element is isolating it, which will hide all the non-highlighted elements in your model.

To isolate entities:

  • Select the entities you want to isolate.
  • Click the Isolate Entities icon in the Quad or in the toolbar.

Show

Hiding and Isolating are temporary functions that you can use to simplify your model while working on it.

When you want to see all the elements in your model:

  • Select the Show Entities icon in the “No Selection” Quad or in the toolbar.

Sections

You can use Sections to cut through your model dynamically.

To create a section:

  • In the “No Selection” Quad, select the Define Section tool , found under the Model tab.
  • Select any solid face in your model to create the section, parallel to the selected solid face.
Note: If you don’t choose a surface to attach the Section, a horizontal Section plane will be created.

You can toggle a section on and off by:

  • double-clicking its handle
  • highlighting the section plane and using Clip Display tool from the Quad.

A Section element has three grip edit points. Selecting the Section’s handle turns the grips on for editing:

  • You can move the start and end grips to change the orientation and width of the Section.
  • You can move the midpoint grip to reposition the section plane.
  • If you click the arrow displayed near the midpoint grip, you will flip the clipping direction of the Section.