# 5.250 - Create enhanced real-time previews **URL:** \ **Category:** Release notes\ **Created:** [October 24, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102 "2022-10-24T13:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![Jeriz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jeriz](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jeriz)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/1 "2022-10-24T13:23:01Z")

- **New:** Visualize your model with a realistic finish making use of the over 20 new fabric and metal materials recently added. - **New** : Take precise measurements of your designs with the new Measure mode. - **Improved** : You can now find keyboard shortcuts for tools and commands at the side menus. - **Improved:** See your model in enhanced detail and contrast with improved Visualization default lighting. - **Improved:** Get a more realistic preview of your models in both light and dark modes with improved lighting and shadow areas that highlight geometries better, and show more natural tones and precise body edges and lines. - **Improved** : The material scale in Visualization has been expanded to cover a range from 0.25x to 4x. - **Improved:** Hull curves are now displayed for control point splines. Let us know what you think of the updates by leaving a comment below. ---

**Author:** ![Jeriz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@Jeriz](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jeriz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/2 "2022-11-02T13:08:45Z")

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**Author:** ![Matt1991](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@Matt1991](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Matt1991)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/4 "2022-11-02T18:52:27Z")

Hi! What’s the new measure mode? And how do we use it? Thanks! Matt ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/5 "2022-11-02T18:54:56Z")

Hi Matt, here is a short video, demonstrating the new Measure mode. ---

**Author:** ![jpeskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@jpeskin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jpeskin)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/6 "2022-11-03T00:59:07Z")

This is an awesome feature, thanks! 👏 I often find that I want to measure the distance between a vertex (e.g. end of an edge) on one object, to another vertex on another object (for checking clearance). I don’t see a way to do that? I do see that I can know the distance from one edge to another, which is nice. ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/7 "2022-11-03T01:01:12Z")

> [@jpeskin](#): > > I often find that I want to measure the distance between a vertex That’s coming soon too. This is the first step towards that direction. ---

**Author:** ![Rohan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/rohan/32/15410_2.png) [@Rohan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Rohan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/8 "2022-11-03T15:59:37Z")

The new fabric and metal materials are amazing 🤩 🤩 🤩 ---

**Author:** ![jb7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jb7](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jb7)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/9 "2022-11-03T21:18:39Z")

Great, nice update, just had a very quick look- The directional wood grain can’t be too far off now- Is it just me, or is the carbon fiber missing? ---

**Author:** ![welshsteve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/welshsteve/32/16111_2.png) [@welshsteve](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/welshsteve)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/10 "2022-11-04T11:53:06Z")

Love the new materials but still need the ability to orientate these textures (especially wood). ---

**Author:** ![welshsteve](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/welshsteve/32/16111_2.png) [@welshsteve](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/welshsteve)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/11 "2022-11-04T12:04:29Z")

Carbon fibre is third in the list of materials… ![carbon fibre](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/b/5/b5aba6b54eccb4d49a6a45690c9e152ecad2c984.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Ali3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Ali3d](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ali3d)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/12 "2022-11-04T21:53:25Z")

Can you show what you mean on the hull curves, control points please ---

**Author:** ![Ali3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Ali3d](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ali3d)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/13 "2022-11-04T21:59:15Z")

The measure tool is amazing and can see that being very helpful, thank you. ---

**Author:** ![Nick1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nick1](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Nick1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/14 "2022-11-05T08:34:48Z")

Has the grain direction been fixed yet? Nick Lewis ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/15 "2022-11-05T18:52:54Z")

@Ali3d the red dashed line is the hull curve. ![Screenshot 2022-11-05 at 19.52.09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/0/e/0e9cd1d4330fa51133b423e5f5dc749bf9119801.jpeg) ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/16 "2022-11-05T18:53:57Z")

> [@Nick1](#): > > Has the grain direction been fixed yet? Not yet, it takes some time, as we need to do some major changes in the underlying technology in order to avoid a significant performance drop. But we are working on it and getting there soon. ---

**Author:** ![jb7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@jb7](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jb7)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/17 "2022-11-05T19:16:29Z")

Ah yes, thank you, wasn’t looking in the drop down… ---

**Author:** ![Nick1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nick1](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Nick1)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/18 "2022-11-05T20:18:18Z")

Thanks, nice to know it’s being worked on. You lot should be proud of what you’ve achieved so far. Shapr3d is brilliant. Nick ---

**Author:** ![Istvan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/istvan/32/23668_2.png) [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/19 "2022-11-05T20:21:06Z")

Thank you 🙏 ---

**Author:** ![Ali3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Ali3d](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ali3d)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102/20 "2022-11-05T23:17:18Z")

Thank you for the explanation Istvan, this could be really helpful, I tried it out, and as I draw a lot of splines it could be used a lot. Do you think it would be possible to have different colour sketch lines, that would leap me a lot if I was able to have a few different options for sketch lines especially when I am overlaying OR to select a different colour depending on the plane you are working on? [Next page](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/5-250-create-enhanced-real-time-previews/22102.md?page=2)