Displaying your design> Graphics style > Applying a graphics style

Applying a graphics style to your design

SpaceClaim offers several different ways to style 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

Select an option from the Graphics Style tool from the Style ribbon group on the Display tab to display your design with that option.

Select the option that works best for you for any given task. You can display geometry with a shaded or perspective shaded style, as wireframes, as wireframes with hidden lines displayed in light gray, and as wireframes with hidden lines removed. We recommend that you use the shaded style to most clearly indicate the difference between solids and surfaces.

To set a solid or surface to be transparent, opaque, or metallic

1   Select the solid or surface.

2   Select Transparent, Opaque, or Metallic from the Face Style drop-down to apply that surface style to the selected solid or surface.

If you apply the Opaque style to a surface, it will be returned to the transparent style if it becomes part of a new surface, such as after a merge.

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