Main Toolbar

The Main Toolbar contains shortcuts to Pixyz Studio main functionalities:

Item	Description
Guided import	Used to import CAD/3D files using the Guided Import mode See also: Import Mode, Importing Files, Supported File Formats
Raw import	Used to import CAD/3D files using the Raw Import mode See also: Import Mode, Importing Files, Supported File Formats
Export model	Used to export the current scene to a supported file format See also: Exporting Files, Supported File Formats
Save project	Used to save the current project
Reset	Used to reset the current Pixyz scene
Materials	Opens the Material Editor, containing all materials available in the current project
Preferences	Opens the application Preferences, containing all materials available in the current project
Function List	Opens Pixyz Studio's Function List
Scene Override Material	Temporary visual override of all materials visible in the scene using predefined shaders/materials: Checker: displays all objects with UVs (texture coordinates) applied with a checker texture. Objects with no UVs applied are displayed in a flat purplish color, Clay: displays all objects of the scene with a the same white material (clay-like). It is handy to check where faces are flipped, combined with the Rendering Mode set to BF Color (pink), as all materials are temporarily replaced with a white look, even for transparent materials. Specular: displays all objects of the scene with a the same reflective orange material. Zebra: displays all objects of the scene with a the same zebra shader to visualize light reflection breaks. Color By Part: displays each object of the scene with a different randomized color. Vertex colors: displays the colors applied to a mesh vertices, if any. If no color is applied to a mesh present in the scene, it will appear transparent.
Rendering mode	Back-face culling rendering modes: Back-face Color (default): displays back faces with a flat pink color. Can be handy for easily spotting triangle faces that are unproperly oriented. Back-face Culling: displays back faces as transparent faces. Double-sided (default): displays the 2 sides of all the faces for each object in the scene (requires more computing power to display as the number of triangles sent to the graphic card is doubled).
Isolate	Used to isolate the selection of parts from the rest of the scene in order to focus on it.
Show / no show	Use to switch the viewport display between visible occurrences (visibility or inherited visibility ON) and hidden occurrences (visibility or inherited visibility OFF).
Fit to view	Fits camera-view to the selection (or to all objects in the scene if no selection)
Fullscreen	Use to switch to a full-screen viewport display. Click F11 key again (or ESC), or the Windowed button to exit full-screen mode (this button is located in the lateral toolbar: move your mouse to the right-hand side of the screen to display it)
Selection mode	Used to select the type of geometries that can be selected in the viewport using the select mouse: Part (default mode), Connected Mesh, Patch or Polygons
Transform gizmo	Toggle ON or OFF to activate the transformation gizmo displayed in the viewport, and used to move a Part in the scene. Use the parameter Move Pivot Only to adjust only the pivot point's position and rotation for the selected Part.
Show B-Reps	Displays native CAD representation (CAD faces). They are represented as primitive wireframes
Show Wireframe	Displays wireframe: mesh edges are drawn in the viewport
Show Shaded	Displays shaded mesh: polygon faces are drawn in the viewport
Show Outlines	Displays mesh outlines information. Outlines are either CAD patches boundaries (displayed black by default) or Lines (displayed white by default).
Show Points	Displays vertices (CAD points, free vertices, point clouds)
Skeleton	Displays the skeletons of rigged models when existing