Control Model Appearance

You can use the tools on the Render Style panel on the Viewpoint tab to control how your model is displayed in the Scene View.

Note: Render and Lighting modes are not available in a 2D workspace.

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, 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.

Note: If you are using models with textures, in order to manually apply color or transparency overrides, use Appearance Profiler, or use Quantification Appearance, you must change the Render mode from Full Render to Shaded. See Select Render Mode and Change Takeoff Data Appearance.