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Using graphical display options

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Using graphical display options

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the Graphic Display Options dialogue. This dialogue gives us lots of different options to customize the way a particular view looks. I'm going to work in a 3D view, but you can use most of these tools in 2D views as well. You can get to the Graphic Display Options dialogue in a couple of different ways, it's available down here in your View Control bar and as you can see it's going to keep our shortcut g + d so all of those are options. So what I'm going to do is position this window off to the side over here, and let's start with the Visual Styles, so we're of course looking at Hidden Line, here's Wire Frame, Wire Frame's probably not that useful for most presentation purposes. Here's Shaded, so Shaded kind of does a little bit of shade and shadow with the colors from the materials, contrast that to consistent colors where it removes the shading and all the colors are flat. And then finally we have realistic shading where it actually applies the textures to the surfaces, so if I…

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