Std SetAppearance
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| Menu location |
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| View → Appearance... |
| Workbenches |
| Material, Part, PartDesign and more |
| Default shortcut |
| Ctrl+D |
| Introduced in version |
| - |
| See also |
| Std SetMaterial, Part ColorPerFace |
Description
The Std SetAppearance command sets the display properties of selected objects.
This page has been updated for version 1.0.
The Display properties task panel
Usage
- Select one or more objects.
- There are several ways to invoke the command:
- The Display properties task panel opens. See Options.
- Change one or more properties.
- The objects are updated immediately.
- Optionally select one or more new objects whose properties you want to change.
- Press the Close button to close the task panel and finish the command.
Options
Viewing mode
- Select a ViewDisplay Mode from the dropdown list. The available options are:
Flat lines,Shaded(not for Draft objects),WireframeandPoints. See the Std DrawStyle command for more information.
Material
- Select a material from the list.
- Optionally select a category from the dropdown list below the material list to filter the materials. The available categories are
Basic Appearance,Texture Appearance(such materials are not yet available) andAll Materials. - Optionally press the Launch editor button to launch the Material editor.
- Optionally select a category from the dropdown list below the material list to filter the materials. The available categories are
- Custom appearance: press the ... button to override the material appearance. The Material properties dialog box opens. See Part ColorPerFace.
- Color plot: unsupported at this time.
- Line color: sets the ViewLine Color property. Press the button to open the Select color dialog box.
- Point color: sets the ViewPoint Color property. Press the button to open the Select color dialog box.
Display
- Point size: sets the ViewPoint Size property (in pixels).
- Line width: sets the ViewLine Width property (in pixels).
- Transparency: sets the ViewTransparency property (in percentage). 0% is opaque, 100% is fully transparent.
- Line transparency: unsupported at this time.
Notes
- The mentioned view properties can also be changed in the Property editor.
Std Base
- File: New, Open, Open Recent, Close, Close All, Save, Save As, Save a Copy, Save All, Revert, Import, Export,Merge project, Document information, Print, Print preview, Export PDF, Exit
- Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate selection, Refresh, Box selection, Box element selection, Select All, Delete, Send to Python Console, Placement, Transform, Alignment, Toggle Edit mode, Properties, Edit mode, Preferences
- View:
- Miscellaneous: Create new view, Orthographic view, Perspective view, Fullscreen, Bounding box, Toggle axis cross, Clipping plane, Persistent section cut, Texture mapping, Toggle navigation/Edit mode, Material, Appearance, Random color, Color per face, Toggle transparency, Workbench, Status bar
- Standard views: Fit all, Fit selection, Align to selection, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric, Home, Front, Top, Right, Rear, Bottom, Left, Rotate Left, Rotate Right, Store working view, Recall working view
- Freeze display: Save views, Load views, Freeze view, Clear views
- Draw style: As is, Points, Wireframe, Hidden line, No shading, Shaded, Flat lines
- Stereo: Stereo red/cyan, Stereo quad buffer, Stereo Interleaved Rows, Stereo Interleaved Columns, Stereo Off, Issue camera position
- Zoom: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Box zoom
- Document window: Docked, Undocked, Fullscreen
- Visibility: Toggle visibility, Show selection, Hide selection, Select visible objects, Toggle all objects, Show all objects, Hide all objects, Toggle selectability
- Toolbars: File, Edit, Clipboard, Workbench, Macro, View, Individual views, Structure, Help, Lock toolbars
- Panels: Tree view, Property view, Model, Selection view, Python console, Report view, Tasks, DAG view
- Dock window overlay: Toggle overlay for all, Toggle transparent for all, Toggle overlay, Toggle transparent, Bypass mouse events in docked overlay windows, Toggle left, Toggle right, Toggle top, Toggle bottom
- Link navigation: Go to linked object, Go to the deepest linked object, Select all links
- Tree view actions: Sync view, Sync selection, Sync placement, Pre-selection, Record selection, Single document, Multi document, Collapse/Expand, Initiate dragging, Go to selection, Selection back, Selection forward
- Tools: Edit parameters, Save image, Load image, Scene inspector, Dependency graph, Export dependency graph, Document utility, Add text document, View turntable, Units converter, Customize, Addon manager, Measure
- Macro: Macro recording, Macros, Recent macros, Execute macro, Attach to remote debugger, Debug macro, Stop debugging, Step over, Step into, Toggle breakpoint
- Help: Help, FreeCAD Website, Donate, Users documentation, Python scripting documentation, Automatic Python modules documentation, FreeCAD Forum, FreeCAD FAQ, Report a bug, About FreeCAD, What's This, Start
- Additional:
- Miscellaneous: Create part, Create group, Create a variable set, Make link group, Select all instances, Toggle freeze
- Create datums: Create coordinate system, Create datum plane, Create datum line, Create datum point
- Link tools: Make link, Make sub-link, Replace with link, Unlink, Import links, Import all links
- Expression actions: Copy selected, Copy active document, Copy all documents, Paste
- Selection filter: Vertex selection, Edge selection, Face selection, All selection filters cleared
User documentation
- Getting started
- Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
- Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
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