Blender 3D Printing by Example

Switching viewport shading to wireframe

Just as you can change your viewport and viewing perspective, you can also tell Blender how to shade the objects on the screen by changing the viewport shading. By default, we have been working in Solid mode. The objects are displayed as solids with simple shading. Blender also has a Wireframe mode that only displays the vertices and edges. Without the faces and shading, you can often get a clearer view to evaluate your work:

The intersection in Wireframe mode

You can change the viewport shading by:

1. In either Edit Mode or Object Mode, click on the icon directly to the right of the Interaction Mode drop-down. ...