Drawing style and view controls
Choose how the design is displayed and which visual aids appear on the canvas.
Use the Style, Display, Filters and Panels menus in the canvas view-control strip. Available menus and rows depend on the current editor and whether the view is 2D or 3D. These controls are no longer three tabs of an eye-button flyout in the left rail.
Choose a drawing style
Open Style in the Design canvas. Normal uses solid surface colors. Material displays assigned surface materials with lighting. The Plants row switches between Balloon and Garden leaves. Use the Brightness control to adjust the view’s ambient lighting.
Show the visual aids you need
Open Display for the aids supported by the current editor, including grid, rulers, axes, construction guides and underlays. Underlay controls appear when the relevant underlay exists. Rows for drawing annotations are not universal to Terrain or Structure editing.
Filter layers and classes
In the Design canvas, open Filters to access layer and class controls. These determine which design objects are visible or emphasized. They are separate from changing a selected object’s fill or contour.
Show optional canvas panels
Open Panels to show the controls registered by the current editor, such as the garden map, plan rotation or snap palette. An editor only lists panels it supports. Set snapping in the snap palette; there is no Snap tab in the Style menu.
Drawing style settings change the drawing’s display state. They are not a promise that every export or Presentation view is unaffected. Review the chosen export or Presentation settings before creating the final output.