Customizing the View Mode

You can define the visualization parameters for lines and points as well as the mesh parameters to be applied.

Before you begin: In certain cases, selecting an option may also select other options. Each time you select or clear an option, the current view is dynamically updated to take your settings into account.
Related Topics
Editing Graphic Properties
About Rendering Styles

  1. Click Customize View in the View toolbar or select View > Render Style > Customize View....

    The first time you run the command, the settings for the current document are selected in the dialog box:

  2. In the View Mode Customization dialog box, define the visualization parameters for lines and points by selecting the appropriate options in the Lines and Points area.

    Warning: Regarding the No wires, No axes and No points options:
    • They have no impact on the following features: V5 FTA features, 2D Layout features (neither in the 3D, nor in the 2D window), 3D annotations, sketches in the Sketcher workbench, sketch axes for Working on support, Working on support and V4 FD&T features.
    • Axes from the Sketcher workbench cannot be filtered.
    • Axis systems can be filtered in Design mode only.

  3. Define the mesh parameters by selecting the appropriate options in the Mesh area.

  4. Optional: Click Rendering style per object to take into account the rendering style defined for each object.

  5. Click OK to apply and save your customized view parameters, or Cancel to exit without saving them.

    The parameters are stored with the settings. To apply them to the current document, click Customize View Parameters in the View toolbar or, select View > Render Style > Customize View Parameters: the View Mode Customization dialog box opens with the options you have previously activated.