Proxy Objects

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Check Out: Proxy Components

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By the way, you do not need RpTools to create Proxy objects, users can do it them selves by creating low poly and high poly layers in their components. Rptools males it easy in a single step.

The use of layers makes it easy to switch back and forth between Lo and HI poly views.

Action to Take

You can replace the current component with a component of the same name with both LO-POLY and HI-POLY geometry stored in separate layers. Place the geometry of the original component in a group in the  HI-POLY layer, and place new low-poly geometry in a LO-POLY layer.

LOW-POLY Display Mode

There are two proxy object modes:

• Criss-cross images - in which the component is replaced with a criss-cross of its thumbnail image.
• Wire frame block - in which the component is replaced with a wire frame block representing its extrema.

These are very low poly, but they will give you a sense of the size and shape of the original component, and will be much faster to display.