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View Style

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  • Link to vectors vs rasters page.

Changing View Style alters the appearance of vector graphics in your Workspace, which can be useful for spotting potential design issues and visualizing the final output from a project.

These options only change the view (rendering) of the objects in your Workspace and do not affect the final work produced by the laser.

View Style Types

  • Filled: shapes that are assigned to layers set to Fill Mode will appear as solid shapes, blocking out shapes behind them on other layers. This is handy for getting a better "feel" for the design, but may hide imperfect design practices such as duplicate or undesireable shapes that are hidden on different layers. Filled View Styles may also be trickier to edit, as some objects are hidden behind others and not easily selected. They also take longer to render, and thus are not suited to older or less powerful computers.
  • Wireframe: all vectors in the design appear as outlines (strokes). This style renders quickly and makes issues in a design more obvious, but does not provide a visual indication of which graphics are assigned to layers set to Fill Mode. You can use Preview to see a rendering of your finished result instead.

For either of these types you can also select the quality of rendering of edges:

  • Smooth: High detail, slower rendering.
  • Course: Lower detail, quicker rendering.

Changing View Style

Select your desired View Style from the Window Menu.

You can also toggle between Wireframe and Filled mode at any time by pressing Option / Alt+W.

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