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View styles

How the model is drawn, never what it is. Pick one from the gear icon under the view bear.

Every picture below is the same nine cubes, from the same camera.

Technical​

Wireframe — every feature edge, nothing filled. Shows the back of the part through the front, which is what you want when you are checking that a feature went all the way through.

Nine cubes drawn as edges only, with the far edges showing through

Transparent solid — filled, but see-through. Where a part sits inside another, without losing the shape of either.

Nine cubes filled translucently, overlaps showing through

Solid — opaque, flat-shaded, no edge overlay. The default: the fewest lines that still read as a solid.

Nine cubes as opaque flat-shaded solids

Solid + wireframe — opaque, with every edge drawn on top and through. A drawing of the part's construction over the part.

Nine opaque cubes with all their edges overlaid, including hidden ones

Realistic — lit rather than flat-shaded, with a contact shadow on the build plane. The shadow is the only cue for whether a part rests on the ground or floats above it.

Nine cubes lit with highlights and a soft contact shadow

Pencil​

Second row of the popup. Strokes that overshoot their corners and wobble along their length, and a hatched contact shadow. The same edge is drawn the same way from every angle, so the drawing doesn't crawl as you orbit.

Loose pencil — one pencil, one color, on white paper.

Nine cubes drawn in graphite on white paper with hand-drawn strokes

Dark pencil — the same hand with the lights out: a white pencil on the dark background.

The same hand-drawn cubes in white pencil on the app's dark background

Colored pencil — each body's color laid in with the side of the lead, past the lines; solids shadow each other.

The same hand-drawn cubes, each in its own color

Watercolor — the same drawing, painted: each color a wash that pools and dries darker at the edges.

The same hand-drawn cubes, their colors laid on as watercolor washes

Projections on a drawing​

A projection on a drawing page has its own Style, set per view rather than per viewport. Every picture below is the same plate, from the same angle.

Visible edges — hidden lines removed.

A projected plate and block with only the edges facing the viewer

Wireframe — every feature edge, including the back ones. The default.

The same projection with the hidden edges drawn as well

Shaded — grey-shaded faces under the visible edges.

The same projection with grey-shaded faces

Colorful — shaded, keeping each body's material color.

The same projection shaded in each body's own color

Loose pencil — the visible edges drawn by hand.

The same projection with hand-drawn graphite edges

Colored pencil — the same hand, with each body's color scribbled in and the solids' shadows on each other.

The same hand-drawn projection with each body's color scribbled in

Watercolor — the same hand, with each color washed on instead — pooling, and darker where it dried at the edges.

The same hand-drawn projection with its colors laid on as watercolor washes

Both pencil styles letter their captions and dimensions by hand, in Klee One. SVG exports name the font; PDF exports keep the drawing's usual sans.

With nothing selected, the pane's Drawing → New views sets what the next projection on the page starts as. Views already placed keep theirs.