From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor

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3D display settings

3D display settings

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3D display settings

- [Instructor] We're staying in AutoCAD in our plate dot DWG file and like I've done before, I'm now going to type graphics config. I don't have to type the whole word. It pops up on the suggestion menu, I click on it and up comes our graphics performance dialog box like we've done previously in previous videos in the chapter. I'm going to click on details here like so to expand out all of the details of the dialog box. Now we're going to look now at our 3D display settings which are our advanced material effects, our full shadow display and per pixel lighting. Now, if you read the gray text underneath each of those, you can see that it increases details and realism of certain materials. It displays 3D object shadows in the viewport and it increases details and realism when working with 3D objects and lighting effects. Now I'm not going to go into an entire video all about lighting and shadows and so on. I'm just…

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