DisplayTgls > Smooth

Smoothing Aliased Lines

Use smoothing to turn anti-aliased lines on and off.

Anti-aliasing is a method used to reduce or eliminate aliasing and to help produce smoother, higher quality lines. Angled or curved lines tend to appear jagged. This effect, known as aliasing, or more commonly the jaggies or staircasing, is caused by limited screen resolution.

Note:

Anti-aliasing only produces a higher quality screen image. It does not affect the quality of the model being displayed. It can also slow redraws significantly depending on the machine you are using.

The model is automatically updated in each window while the grid smoothness can be toggled on and off in all windows, or just the Perspective window.

Line Smooth Options

Select DisplayTgls > Smooth- to open the Line Smooth Options box.

Hint

Do Not Care

: The most effective way for the given hardware will be chosen (a compromise between speed and accuracy).

Fastest

: The fastest way will be chosen.

Nicest

: The most accurate way will be chosen.

Grids

None

: Click to specify that the grids will not be anti-aliased in any window.

Perspective

: Click to specify that only the grid in the Perspective windows will be anti-aliased.

All

: Click to specify that the grids in all the modeling windows will be anti-aliased.

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