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Learn some ways to view drawing objects in three-dimensional views.
Type:
Tutorial
Length:
6 min.
A Southeast isometric view of the surface is displayed in the left viewport, and the right viewport stays in plan view.
Notice the green and blue lines. The green lines are the layout profiles that you examined in profile view. They are green because the Model view direction in its style indicated that they will display as green. The blue lines under the surface are the horizontal alignments from which the profiles were created.
The SE Isometric 3D View
AutoCAD visual styles give a fast, basic visualization of an object that is useful for on-screen presentation in Autodesk Civil 3D. The 3D Wireframe visual style displays the surface in model view without applying a fill material to the object.
The 3D Wireframe visual style
Notice that a cube is displayed in the upper right-hand corner. This is the AutoCAD ViewCube, which provides visual feedback of the current orientation of a model. You can use the ViewCube to adjust the viewpoint of the model when a visual style has been applied.
The Conceptual visual style shades the object and smooths the edges between polygon faces. The shading in this style uses the Gooch face style, a transition between cool and warm colors rather than dark to light. The effect is not realistic, but it can make the details of the model easy to see.
The conceptual visual style
The Realistic visual style shades the surface and smooths the edges between polygon faces. The render material that is specified in the surface style is displayed.
The realistic visual style
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