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Now I'm going to show you very quickly how to render your drawing. Now, again, this is one of those things I'd like you to explore after you know how to render. We've set our Lighting using our Sun Properties. We've set our Materials using our Materials Browser. Now, these are all in the View Tab in the 3D Modeling Workspace so we're going to render now. Now, rendering will render all of this in a real-time view, something like a JPG, a GIF file, a TIF file and so on. You can take it and output it and save a copy of it and then you can edit it in things like Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, all that sort of thing as well. So let's have a look at rendering, just very, very briefly. So Rendering is here, Advanced Render Settings and there's lots of information in here. Procedure, I got a View there if I click here, I can do a Crop or I can do a Selected Area. So if I go for Selected let's say, when I click on Render, it will ask me to select an area. I'm just going to for the Standard View. Output Size, I put 640 by 480 pixels that is. I can make it bigger. I click there, I can specify an output size. Let's go for something like 800 by 600. Let's make it a little bit bigger. Exposure Type, automatic there or I can go for Logarithmic there. Automatic tends to be quicker. And the Physical Scale is 1500 there. Apply Materials, that's on, Texture Filtering On, Force Two-Sided, On. Now, if I scroll down this list, there's information here, things like Contrast, Shadows, Shadow Mapping is Off. I could actually show the Shadow Mapping if I wanted to, things like Ray Tracing, Global Illumination. What's all that about then? Radius, Maximum Depth, Reflections, there's loads of information here. Even down to Photons and Light and Energy Multipliers for Light. What I'm going to do is just do a Standard Render. Now, if I look at the top here, I've got Medium, Low, High or Presentation. Now, it depends on what you go for. If you go for Draft, it's real quick. If you go for Presentation, real slow. Go and make a cup of coffee while it's rendering. I'm going to go for High. High is sort of in between Medium and Presentation, doesn't take too long. Or maybe, no, let's go for Medium. I think that'd be a good option. Just for speed. So I now hit Render here and what happens now is you'll see the screen change and you'll notice that there's all these funny little squares appearing in the middle. That is AutoCAD calculating your render. Can you see that? As it's working its way across those squares, it's actually rendering all those images, texture mapping, material mapping and the drawing itself into a graphical image. Now, this graphical image can be used in brochures, it can be used in presentations, it can be used in PowerPoints and so on and so forth so the idea here is you take this information from your drawing, the render and you apply it and you show your client, you show your boss. You show your wife. You show your friends; whoever needs to see it at the time. I mean, it might be your wife. This might be your dream home; you just don't know. But that's how architects work. They render and then this information is used in presentations so that the customer can see what they're going to get. You've taken all that time to draw this house up in AutoCAD. You want it to look realistic in a rendered view. So there you go. There's our finished render. It takes a few seconds to finish that and there's all the information that we put in there, as you can see. Or that's all the stuff that we had in the Render Palette. Now, as you can see, I've got a previous render there, 640 by 480. I can select those in the list, there's the 800 by 600 that I've just done and as you can see, what I can do now is I can actually go to File here, I can save it, I can save a copy. On View there I've got things like Status Bar and Statistics Pane, there's Statistics there, there's the Status Bar there and Tools, what can I do? I can Zoom. Basically Zoom In like so or I can Zoom Out. That's the Render Tools in AutoCAD. But once you do something like Save a Copy, like so, I can then save that in any format. So let's have a look. What have I got here? I can save it as a JPG. Now, I've got JPGs of all my other stuff there. Let's do a JPG like so and we'll put Finished House. So I'll put that in there like so and I'll save that and that has now been saved. Image Control, Quality, Best, let's go right up to Best Enlarge and let's OK that. So that'll now save that out as a JPG for me. And that render is now complete. That's been saved so I can now close this, I'm back to AutoCAD, I can close the Advanced Render Settings and I can save my drawing. So you can send the client your drawing, your render and your JPG file if you need to.