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Resolution is toggled at the bottom right of the Main Window. There are five resolutions available:
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Highest
  • Adaptive
If the resolution is increased and the file is saved, all new instances of nTop will inherit the previously saved resolution. As the resolution increases, the render time will also increase. The render time difference per resolution tier is entirely based on your hardware and will vary from machine to machine. For more information regarding system requirements, please see the System Requirements.
  • It is important to note that the display setting does not affect the output quality. For example, a complex model rendered at Low resolution may have visual artifacts, but still produces high quality geometry when converted to a mesh.
  • Resolution settings don’t affect the size of the file, only the rendering time.
  • As a best practice, we suggest working in Low or Medium resolution if you are performing computationally expensive operations. If visual verification is crucial to your design, switching to a higher quality render mode is recommended.
  • If you need a higher resolution view than Highest, use Precise Render (View > Precise Render or Ctrl+H). This creates a snapshot of your object in the highest render available in nTop. You can read more about Precise Render here.
  • Adaptive resolution increases rendering quality for complex implicit models by dynamically adjusting the local implicit resolution based on your view.
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