RenderPresets

Creates a new render preset definition.

1. Click the New tool button ().
   The Drawing Explorer - Render Presets closes temporarily.
   The New Render Preset dialog box displays.
   
   

2. Type a name in the Name field.

3. Select an existing render preset which you want to use as a template for the new render preset.

4. Click the Create... button.
   The Drawing Explorer - Render Presets dialog box reopens.

5. (option) Type a description in the Description field (Detail View only).

Deletes the currently selected user defined render preset(s).

It is not possible to delete predefined render presets: Draft, Low, Medium, High and Presentation.

Sets the selected render preset current.

The current render preset is applied when using the Render command or when printing using the shade plot type Rendered as defined in Shade Plot setting in the Page Setup or the Print dialog.

The name of the current render preset displays between brackets: e.g. Current Settings (Medium)?

Optionally overrides can be defined in the the editor pane. If overrides exist, an asterisk displays in front of the current render preset name: e.g.
Current Settings (*Medium)

Displays the Detail View of the render presets.

Displays the Icon View of the render presets.

Settings

It is not possible to edit  predefined render presets: Draft, Low, Medium, High and Presentation, except for Processing > Tile order.

Materials

If On, uses material definitions for rendering.

See Materials property of a layer or entity.

Shadows

If On, calculates shadows.

Ray Tracing

If On, calculates ray tracing.

Max. depth, Max refections and Max refractions define the number of iterations for ray tracing calculations.

Processing

Tile size: sets the size of the tiles the rendered image is processed.

Tile order: When you render to window the rendered image is generated tile by tile. This setting will define the order in which the tiles are generated.

The options are:

• Hilbert: This is the default setting, following a Hilbert curve: a continuous fractal space-filling curve first described by the German mathematician David Hilbert in 1891. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert_curve for a detailed description.

• Spiral: Following a counterclockwise spiral built up from the center of the image

• Left to right: In vertical columns starting from the bottom left corner of the image.

• Right to left: In vertical columns starting from the bottom right corner of the image.

• Top to bottom: In horizontal rows starting at the top left corner of the image.

• Bottom to top: In horizontal rows starting at the bottom left corner of the image.