CHAPTER 18

Presenting Your Design

Wireframe, hidden line, and shaded views are helpful means of visualizing models during the design process. However, visual styles leave something to be desired when you are communicating designs to your clients. The general public has come to expect designers to be able to produce the kind of realistic computer-generated imagery regularly seen in movies. This chapter will help you learn to do that by teaching you how to create realistic presentation images using AutoCAD's advanced rendering system. Please keep in mind that AutoCAD LT does not have rendering capability and AutoCAD for Mac has a reduced set of rendering features compared to AutoCAD for Windows, which has advanced rendering capabilities that include ...

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