About Visualization Modes

Visualization modes enable you to view objects as high quality (precise and accurate), or as optimized quality (faster to load, and faster to navigate).

High Quality
High quality is used for representations. It is more precise and accurate.
Material (internal to the representation), edges, wireframe, and lineic elements rendering modes are available.
Important: The High Quality mode must be turned on to enable the cross-highlight mechanism and the filtering of geometric bodies.
Optimized Quality
Optimized quality is used for representations. It is faster to load, and faster to navigate.
Only the Shading option is available. Material, edges, wireframe, and lineic elements rendering modes can be selected but have no effect on the visualization.
Important:
  • On premises, if the Optimized Quality mode is enabled but has not been generated, the command is grayed out and High Quality mode is used as a fallback since it is always available.
  • On the cloud, the Optimized Quality mode is available only if you have acquired tokens for the multiscale HD navigation.
Default Visualization Mode
By default, the Optimized Quality mode is activated.
The visualization mode is not persistent. Therefore, reloading the view changes the visualization mode to optimized quality and applies the Shading rendering mode.
STEP AP242 Support
  • Step high quality will be displayed when:
    • The app is in Indexed mode.
    • High quality is used, not optimized quality.
    • The Step high quality is synchronized and valid.
  • Before the loading of the 3D, you can define the default geometry stream to high quality. Then for all objects to be loaded for which a Step high quality exists and is both synchronized and valid, the Step high quality will be loaded. See Editing Preferences.
  • If the 3D was loaded with the default geometry stream is defined to optimized quality, you can switch elements manually to high quality. Right-click and select Toggle High Quality. You can do this representation by representation or by selecting multiple representations.
  • When you modify the structure, the app is automatically switched to Authoring mode. In this case, the high quality is displayed.