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Computer aided design software.

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Smooth shading

Software; CAD

A geometry object display technique that can quickly shade the surfaces of objects. Smooth shading is more realistic but slower than flat shading or wireframe display.

Spot light

Software; CAD

A light that shines evenly within a narrow range of directions (defined by a cone) from the light’s location. Spot lights create a beam of light that gradually becomes wider (for example, a ...

Shared display layers

Software; CAD

A method of using one display layer to view referenced files in your scene. Display layers from the referenced scene are added to the display layer of the current scene (along with display layers ...

Smooth proxy

Software; CAD

A method of viewing a smoothed version of a polygonal model even while working with a coarser version of the same model with fewer components to reshape or animate. For smooth proxy, a polygonal ...

A network of connected nodes that control specific aspects of the shading effect. Shading networks define how various colour and texture nodes work with associated lights and surfaces. The placement ...

Shape node

Software; CAD

A node that holds an object’s geometry attributes or attributes other than the object’s transform node attributes. A shape node is always a child of a transform node. Unlike transform nodes, shape ...