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Visualizing designs with renderworks

Visualizing designs with renderworks - Vectorworks Tutorial

From the course: Learning Vectorworks

Visualizing designs with renderworks

- [Tutor] Visualization has always been important in the design fields. In the past, we would rely on third party software or standalone products like Renderworks. In Vectorworks 2017, Renderworks has now been added to all the versions, including Fundamental, so let's take a quick look at what it does. Here we have a Wireframe View of the house. Let's go up to the View pull down and click on Rendering and let's change that to OpenGL. Right now, it's set to Wireframe and this Render Mode is what we've been using in the past videos, so this is a good Render Mode, that we can use while working. Now let's access the Render Modes in another way. Let's go up to the upper right corner of our View window and we have our little teapot here. When we hover over that, it tells us what the active Render Mode is. We click on it and we have Wireframe and a whole bunch of others. Let's go to Renderworks Style and let's go to Render Style White Model. Now Render Style is essentially premade settings…

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