Graphics Programs Reference
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5. Click the Visual Styles button and change the style to Realistic. Notice
that the render material defined for the objects is now displayed.
6. Click the Visual Styles button and change the style to Ray Trace. Notice
that the performance considerably slows, but the image should be more
like a rendered image.
7. Click any object in the model. If you do not already have the Properties
palette active, click the Properties button on the Properties panel of the
contextual tab. Take some time to become familiar with the behavior of
the Properties palette.
Status Bar
The status bar for Revit MEP 2015 not only reports information about
a selected item and shows prompts with instructions for multilevel
commands, it also has an active workset indicator and design options
indicator. The selection options that are available on the Selection panel of
the ribbon also show up on the status bar as icons, as shown in
Figure 1.40
.
Figure 1.40
Status bar
YoucanaccesstheWorksetsdialogboxbyclickingtheWorksetsbuttonnext
to the active workset window. You can switch between active worksets by
clicking the window and selecting the desired workset. These are the same
tools as found on the Collaborate tab, but having them on the status bar
eliminates the need to switch tabs on the ribbon to access them. This also
eliminates the need to add the tools to the Quick Access toolbar. The Design
Options window displays the active design option, and you can access the
Design Options dialog box by clicking the button.
The Editable Only check box is for filtering a selection by only those objects
that are editable in a worksharing environment. You can access any editing
requests, as shown in
Figure 1.41
,
by clicking the small button next to the
active workset indicator. This opens the Editing Request dialog box, which
displaysanypending requestsbyotherstoborrowelements. Thisdialogbox
also displays any requests made by you to other users. Next to the button is
an indicator that shows the number of requests that are currently pending.
