Actor Tools
Actor tools provide control as to the appearance of entities in the viewport. These tools include All Visible With Shade And Textures, Wireframes, Shade, Shade And Wireframes, Texture, Sketchup Color, and Semi Transparent. Their respective icons are illustrated below.
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All Visible With Shade And Textures
This tool sets all the entities visible in the viewport, shades them with their respective colors, and turns on their textures if there are any.
Wireframes
This tool turns all the visible entities in the viewport to their wireframes.
Shade
This tool turns all the visible entities in the viewport to be shaded with their respective colors.
Shade And Wireframes
This tool turns all the visible entities in the viewport to be shaded with their respective colors and overlaid with their wireframes.
Texture
This tool turns all the visible entities in the viewport to be shaded with their respective colors and turns on their textures if applicable.
Sketchup Color
This tool turns on their SketchUp colors (the colors used in SketchUp) for all the entities, regardless whether they are visible or not (you will not notice the difference if they are not visible), or in what state they are rendered (wireframe on or off, shade on or off, etc.).
Semi Transparent
This tool sets the X-Ray intensity (transparency) to 0.5 (the range is [0, 1]) for all the entities, regardless whether they are visible or not (you will not notice the difference if they are not visible), or in what state they are rendered (wireframe on or off, shade on or off, etc.).