SpaceClaim Online Help

Applying a graphics style

SpaceClaim offers several different styles to view your design. You can apply styles to your entire design or drawing sheet, to individual layers, or to individual views in your drawing sheet.

To apply a graphics style to your design

1. Click Graphics in the Style group on the Display tab.

2. Select a graphics option:

    

   • Shaded: The default and recommended view; displays solids and surfaces as three-dimensional, shaded objects.

     

   • WireframeViewOrientation settings that you can apply to your design, including spin, pan, and zoom. You can adjust these settings individually or you can apply one of the following preconfigured views: Trimetric, Isometric, Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Right, Left. You can also select Snap View and click a face to view it head-on. mode in which all edges of the part or assembly are displayed.: Only the edges of objects are displayed. The wireframes are the same color as the edges.

     

   • Hidden LineA straight line, arc, or spline drawn in Sketch mode or on a layout plane. Lines have length but no area. When you pull a sketch into 3D with the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool, lines become edges.: Objects are displayed as wireframes with hidden lines displayed in a light gray.

     

   • Hidden Line Removed: Objects are displayed as wireframes and hidden lines are not shown.

     

   All objects in the Design windowArea in the user interface that displays your model or assembly. Also known as Workspace. will be displayed in the style you select.