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title: Shade Settings
description: How to get to the settings menu! Shade settings let you set the default number of viewsheds per module and toggle the visibility of LiDAR or Google 3D reference layers when calculating shade.  In the
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# Shade Settings

[How to get to the settings menu!](https://help.scanifly.com/scanifly-global-settings?hsLang=en)

Shade settings let you set the default number of viewsheds per module, toggle the visibility of LiDAR or Google 3D reference layers when calculating shade, and toggle whether you want viewsheds to automatically refresh while designing.

![global shade settings](https://help.scanifly.com/hs-fs/hubfs/global%20shade%20settings.gif?width=670&height=346&name=global%20shade%20settings.gif)

In the GIF above, I have 2 viewsheds per module enabled, and "LiDAR effects shading" turned on. When I place the modules + viewsheds, they automatically populate with 2 viewsheds, and you can visualize the LiDAR tree in the viewshed.

 

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