Hi Patrick - re: hide the shading when taking high res screenshot.

Yup - it's possible to get a wireframe-type view that you can screenshot by hiding all the face sub-objects.

That will leave only the edge-subobjects of solids or surfaces showing, giving you that wireframe type display. Then to get back to normal you show all the faces.

In v1 you can do this by a script, let me know if you need that.

In v2 it's a lot easier to do this by using the "Types" section in the Scene Browser. Go click on the eye icon for "Faces", and it will hide them all (click it again when you are done to show them again):



In the current beta, you can't select solid or surface objects if their faces are hidden, so you need to turn faces back on to being displayed before you can continue working on stuff. But this is fixed up to work better in the next v2 beta, where you can select objects even if their faces are hidden.

- Michael