Customize menu > Viewport Configuration > Viewport Configuration dialog > Rendering Method tab
Right-click a viewport label. > Configure > Viewport Configuration dialog > Rendering Method tab
You set the rendering method for either the current viewport or all viewports on the Rendering Method panel of the Viewport Configuration dialog.
Procedures
To set the viewport rendering method:
Choose Customize menu > Configure > Viewport Configuration dialog > Rendering Method tab.
Click to choose the desired rendering level and any options available for that level.
Choose what to apply to the rendering level.
Active Viewport Only applies the rendering method to the active viewport. This choice is always the default.
All Viewports applies the rendering method to all configured viewports.
All But Active applies the rendering method to all viewports except the active one.
Tip: This option lets you work in full detail in the current view and easily set other views to Wireframe or Bounding Box for quicker interactive display.
To enter an FOV value in a perspective view:
Activate a viewport with a Perspective view.
Right-click the viewport label and choose Configure to display the Viewport Configuration dialog > Rendering Method tab.
Enter an angle in the Field Of View field.
When you open this dialog, the settings reflect the current viewport settings.
Rendering Level group
Determines how the software displays objects.
Smooth+Highlights: Renders objects with smooth shading and displays specular highlights.
Smooth: Renders objects with smooth shading only.
Facets+Highlights: Renders objects with flat shading and displays specular highlights.
Facets: Renders objects with flat shading only.
Lit Wireframes: Renders objects as wireframes with flat shading.
Wireframe: Draws objects as wireframes with no shading applied.
Bounding Box: Draws objects as bounding boxes with no shading applied. A bounding box is defined as the smallest box that completely encloses an object.
Edged Faces: Available only when the current viewport is in a shaded mode, such as Smooth, Smooth+Highlights, Facets+Highlights, or Facets. When Edged Faces is on in these modes, the wireframe edges of objects appear along with the shaded surfaces. This is helpful for editing meshes in a shaded display.
Edges are displayed using the object wireframe color, while surfaces use material colors (if a material is assigned). This lets you create contrasting colors between the shaded surfaces and the wireframe edges. You can switch these around in the Display Color rollout in the Display panel.
Transparency group
None: Objects with transparency assigned appear completely opaque, regardless of the transparency settings.
Stipple: Objects with transparency assigned are displayed with a ôscreen doorö transparency effect.
Blend: Objects with transparency assigned are displayed with a two-pass transparency effect.
This option is smoother.
Apply To group
Applies the current settings to the active viewport only, to all viewports, or to all the viewports except the active one.
Rendering Options group
These check boxes modify either the shading modes or the wireframe modes. They refer to the viewport shading.
Disable View: Disables the active viewport. A disabled viewport behaves like any other viewport while active. However, when you change the scene in another viewport, the view in the disabled viewport does not change until you next activate it. Use this function to speed up screen redraws when you are working on complex geometry.
Disable Textures: Select to turn off display of texture maps assigned to objects. Turn off to show the maps assigned to objects.
Texture Correction: Redraws the viewport using pixel interpolation (perspective-corrected). The redrawn image remains until you force the viewport to redraw for any reason. This command has an effect only when the viewport is shaded and at least one object's map is displayed.
Z-Buffer Wireframe Objects: Draws the wires ordered according to depth in the scene. Otherwise wires may be drawn out of order to speed the viewport display. This option is generally needed only when sub-object selections are "hidden" by lines drawn out of order. For example, you select the front edges of a box, but they donÆt appear highlighted in red, because the white lines from the rear may get drawn last. Activate this only if you find that selections are obscured or if you need the viewport redrawn from back to front.
Force 2-Sided: Set to render both sides of faces. See 2-Sided. Turn off to render only faces with normals toward the viewer. Usually, you'll want to keep this option off to speed redraw time. You might want to turn it on if you need to see the inside as well as the outside of objects, or if you've imported complex geometry in which the face normals are not properly unified.
Default Lighting: Turn on to use default lighting. Turn off to use the lights created in the scene. If no lights exist in the scene, the default lighting is used automatically, even when this check box is off. Default=off.
Sometimes the lighting you create in the scene makes the objects difficult to see in the viewport. The default lighting displays the objects under an even illumination. You can select either 1 light (default) or 2 lights.
1 Light: Provides an over-the-shoulder light with 20% faster redraws at the expense of less natural illumination.
2 Light: Provides more natural illumination, but slower viewport performance.
Shade Selected Faces: Faces selected in the viewport are displayed in a red semitransparent state when this is turned on, letting you see the faces youÆve selected when the Shading Mode is Smooth+Highlighted.
Use Selection Brackets: Toggles the display of white selection brackets in the viewport display. Turn this off in complex scenes when the display of multiple selection brackets obscures the required view of selected objects.
Display Selected with Edged Faces: Toggles the display of highlighted edges for selected objects when the viewport is in a shaded mode, such as Smooth, Smooth+Highlights, Facets+Highlights, or Facets. When on in these modes, the wireframe edges of selected objects appear along with the shaded surfaces. This is helpful when selecting multiple objects or small objects.
Viewport Clipping: When turned on, interactively sets a near and far range for viewport display. Two red arrows at the edge of the viewport allow you to determine where the clipping will occur. Red tick marks correspond to the extents of the viewport, the lower tick is the near clipping plane, and the upper tick sets the far clipping plane.
Fast View Nth Faces: When turned on, speeds screen redraw by displaying fewer faces. The Nth Faces spinner sets the number of faces that are displayed when the Fast View mode is active. For example, a setting of 3 displays every third face.
Perspective User View group
Field Of View: Sets the field of view angle for a Perspective viewport. This spinner is not available when any other viewport type is active. You can change the Camera field of view in the Modify panel.