In SimpliPlan, under the View tab you can adjust the appearance of your plan. This is useful when you are creating renders for display. For more information, see How to render images.
In any mode, under the View tab, you can click View-settings, Visibility and Measurement:
View-settings
In the View-settings dialog, you can:
- Adjust the time of day by using the Daytime slider.
- Adjust the brightness of lights in the plan using the Room lights slider.
- Adjust the direction of natural light in the room, and the position of reflections, using the Incidence of light slider.
- Toggle light effects, such as reflections and shadows, by ticking or unticking Light effects.
- Toggle shadows in the room by ticking or unticking Shadows.
Note: If the Light effects box is unticked, shadows will not be shown.
- Adjust the exposure, saturation, contrast and white balance / colour temperature using the Exposure, Saturation, Contrast and White balance / colour temperature sliders.
- Click the Draw mode icons to switch between Standard, Edged, Edged (transparent) and Black / white.
- Adjust the field of view, using the Field of view slider.
Visibility
In the Visibility dialog, you can:
- Click the Inventory icons to alter the visibility of manufacturer's objects by switching between Visible, Shaded and Hidden.
- Click the Platforms / components icons to alter the visibility of platforms and components by switching between Visible, Shaded and Hidden.
- Toggle the visibility of walls, objects embedded in walls, blocked areas, wall measurements, manual measurements, labelling, lines and symbols using the Hide walls automatically, Hide objects in walls automatically, Hide objects on the ceiling in 2D, Window opening areas in 2D, Door opening areas in 2D and Detailed windows/doors in 2D.
- Toggle the visibility of Labelling / lines, Symbols in 2D and 3D, and Window/door properties in 2D.
Measurement
In the Measurement dialog, you can toggle the visibility of measurements.
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