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Render Views, Selected Objects, or Cropped Content
Concept Procedure Quick Reference
 
 
 

To render a view

  1. Display a 3D view of your model.
  2. At the Command prompt, enter rpref.
  3. Choose a render preset to control the quality and speed of the rendered output.

    The Draft preset is very fast but its quality is low. Presentation generates a high quality image but takes substantially longer to render.

  4. Set the Destination to Window or Viewport to specify where you want the rendered image to be displayed.

    If you set an image target, the image is saved directly to a file as well as appearing on screen.

  5. Render the scene.
 Toolbar: Render
 Command entry: RPREF
 Dashboard:  Render panel (click icon to expand), Advanced Render Settings